Brewer's: Forget-me-nots of the Angels

The stars are so called by Longfellow. The similitude between a little lightblue flower and the yellow stars is very remote. Stars are more like buttercups than forget-me-nots.

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

Evungeline.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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