Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 177
THE LILAC-TREE BY LAURA SPENCER PORTOR I never had a lilac-tree ; I wish that I had one,With all its purple candles A-lighted in the sun,And all its sweetest perfume Like smoke upon the breeze,And all its dusty lilac leaves Like other lilac-trees. I d do without the larkspur— I would not care at…
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