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RAINBOWS: FORGET-ME-NOTS, by                    
First Line: A song of forget-me-nots I sing
Last Line: Love, because they are like your eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred
Subject(s): Forget-me-nots


A SONG of forget-me-nots I sing!
Forget-me-nots are my favourite flowers,
Love, because they are like your eyes.
Blue as the wild, blue butterflies
They stare and dream through the singing hours,
Under the turquoise and silver skies,
Under the fickle eyes of spring.

They see the sky like a looking-glass
That waits for the beautiful face of day,
For the face of the dawn is cold.
Stare with eyes more yellow than gold
When the noon sun sends the clouds away.
And at twilight time, with gaze as bold,
They watch the pomps of sunset pass.

And sleepless under the starlit skies
They listen and look with their petals wide,
For though the moon be lost for hours,
Hidden behind her high cloud towers,
A brown bird signs by the river-side.
Forget-me-nots are my favourite flowers,
Love, because they are like your eyes.





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