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THE FORGET ME NOT.

THE

FORGET ME
ME NOT:

A SELECTION

OF

SIMPLE SONGS,

FOR

Thinking Bearts.

"Tis my delight alone in summer shade,
To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts."

Wordsworth.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.

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J. DUNN AND CO., PRINTERS, NOTTINGHAM.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS little work has been undertaken chiefly from a desire to place in the hands of young persons specimens of good poetry, free from those false sentiments by which so many of our first poets have marred the beauty of their productions.

The 'FORGET ME NOT' boasts of nothing original-the Compiler is no poet, unless he may claim the title on the authority of Byron, when

he says,

"Many are poets who have never penn'd

Their inspiration."

It has been found rather a difficult task to

gratify taste, and at the same time to preserve

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