Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Forget-Me-Not. By C. A. L. Totten. Clouds of flowers, from heaven descending Flecked the. sky from East to West : — Through the dew and sunlight bl... more »ending Rainbow hues — for earth in quest. Named for sentiments generic, Perfumed, glory - clothed, wind - tost, All were joyous, and celeric, Save one mite — whose name was lost. Mute, in beauty - blue reflecting All the azure of the skies, Vain from mates no name detecting, Back to Heaven it sadly hies. Bending there, at end of mission, Sweet with grace from thence begot, She said, in tones of sweet contrition ! " Father, I've my name forgot !" Without any glanced 'monition God looked down upon the spot Where posie stood in such condition, Saying, " Child, ' Forget-me-not.'" So, back to its fond companions, With this message to them all, Decking fields, and filling canyons, Who, cannot that name recall ? The Riddle of Man. From " The Dial." " Ye bards, ye prophets, ye sages, read to me if ye can, That which hath been the riddle of ages, read me the riddle of Man ! Then came the bard with his lyre and the sage with his pen and scroll, And the prophet with his eye of fire, to unriddle a human soul. And the soul stood up in its might, its stature they could not scan, And it rayed out a dazzling, mystic light, and shamed their wisest plan. Yet sweetly the bard did sing, and learned talked the sage, And the seer flashed by with his lightning wing, soaring beyond his age. chapter{Section 4Of life-fire snatched from Jove ; of a forfeited age of gold ; Of Providence and deathless love the charming minstrel told. The Sage of Wisdom spoke ; of doctrines, books, and schools, And how when they broke from learning's yoke- all men were turned to fools. An...« less