OUR OPEN LETTER BOX.
Stanmore’s query concerning some verses is answered by Dorothy A. Cross and “Nell.” The authoress is said by the former to be Miss M. E. Manners, though the lines are printed anonymously. Nell encloses a similar poem, which we print verbatim.
The Forget-Me-Not.
It’s said that ages, long ago, when God had formed the earth and heaven,
He called the flowers one by one, until to all sweet names He’d given:
To one, pure Lily, other Rose, another Violet, or Daisy fair,
As each bright flower before Him passed, to wear anew its Father’s care.
But oh! one day, a tiny flower, with pale blue eye and little tear,
Came back to Him and said, “Dear Lord, I’ve forgotten quite my name, I fear.”
Then looking down upon the flower, which trembling stood, with bended head,
Without reproof or look unkind, “Forget-Me-Not,” He gently said.
Copyright.
E. Ridley.
Ninette (Budapesth) has four answers. N. E. Coote tells her she will find “The Song of the Shirt” and “Somebody’s Darling” in No. VI. Royal Reader. F. W. Stone refers her to Bell’s Standard Elocutionist, published by Hodder and Stoughton. “Rosebud” says the poems are both in The Art of Speaking, by Harold Ford. Edith Walpole, 58, Talgarth Road, West Kensington, London, refers her to vol. v. of The Royal Reader, but offers to copy out and send both poems to Ninette.
Janet wishes to know the title and author of the song in which these lines occur—
“Blue seas, and blue skies,
New friends, and new ties.”
E. M. W. seeks the authors of the two following quotations, and the poems from which they are taken:—
(1) “What a single word can do!
Making life seem all untrue;
Driving joy and hope away,
Leaving not one cheering ray;
Blighting every flower that grew—
What a single word can do!”
(2) “Not all who seem to fail, have failed indeed;
Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain,
For all our acts to many issues lead;
And out of earnest purpose, pure and plain,
The Lord will fashion ends in His good time.”