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,