WHERE LILACS BLOOM 



THE old house is surrounded by 

 lilac bushes. They are blooming now 

 and the air is heavy with their fra- 

 grance. It fills the garden and floats 

 out even to the road, and the passerby 

 turns as he scents the odor, and lo ! his 

 memory has turned back a page in 

 his life, and he sees the yard of the 

 home of his youth, full of lilac bushes 

 and violets. He is sitting on the 

 shady side of the house, for the May 

 sunshine is bright, and then the per- 

 fume is sweetest on the side of 

 the house where the bushes are. The 

 old home place is at its best when the 

 thick foliage of May enwraps it, 

 making a bower of beauty. He can 



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