The Forgetful Forgetmenot.The Professor.Pray tell me, sweet Forget-me-not,Oh, kindly tell me where you gotYour curious name?I’m most desirous to be toldThe legend or romance of oldFrom whence it came.Forget-me-not.Indeed, good sir, it seems to me,If you have books on BotanyUpon your shelf,You’d better far consult those books—He learns a thing the best who looksIt up himself.The Professor.I’ve works on Botany a few,But though I’ve searched them through and through,Never a wordCan I discover in the sameAbout your interesting name.Forget-me-not.Why, how absurd!The Professor.Quite so! And now what can I do?I shall be most obliged if youWill make it plain.Forget-me-not.Another time. One moment more,And you’ll be drenched!It’s going to pour:I felt just now no less than fourBig drops of rain.[ExitProfessor.]Forget-me-not.(Aside) Indeed, I’d tell him if I knew;But it would never, never doIf I explainedThat, long ago, I quite forgotWhy I was called Forget-me-not(It’s well it rained)!
The Professor.
Pray tell me, sweet Forget-me-not,Oh, kindly tell me where you gotYour curious name?I’m most desirous to be toldThe legend or romance of oldFrom whence it came.
Pray tell me, sweet Forget-me-not,Oh, kindly tell me where you gotYour curious name?I’m most desirous to be toldThe legend or romance of oldFrom whence it came.
Forget-me-not.
Indeed, good sir, it seems to me,If you have books on BotanyUpon your shelf,You’d better far consult those books—He learns a thing the best who looksIt up himself.
Indeed, good sir, it seems to me,If you have books on BotanyUpon your shelf,You’d better far consult those books—He learns a thing the best who looksIt up himself.
The Professor.
I’ve works on Botany a few,But though I’ve searched them through and through,Never a wordCan I discover in the sameAbout your interesting name.
I’ve works on Botany a few,But though I’ve searched them through and through,Never a wordCan I discover in the sameAbout your interesting name.
Forget-me-not.
Why, how absurd!
Why, how absurd!
The Professor.
Quite so! And now what can I do?I shall be most obliged if youWill make it plain.
Quite so! And now what can I do?I shall be most obliged if youWill make it plain.
Forget-me-not.
Another time. One moment more,And you’ll be drenched!It’s going to pour:I felt just now no less than fourBig drops of rain.
Another time. One moment more,And you’ll be drenched!It’s going to pour:I felt just now no less than fourBig drops of rain.
[ExitProfessor.]
[ExitProfessor.]
Forget-me-not.
(Aside) Indeed, I’d tell him if I knew;But it would never, never doIf I explainedThat, long ago, I quite forgotWhy I was called Forget-me-not(It’s well it rained)!
(Aside) Indeed, I’d tell him if I knew;But it would never, never doIf I explainedThat, long ago, I quite forgotWhy I was called Forget-me-not(It’s well it rained)!