gifts were complete but the Queen was sad.

"She is a child of earth," she said, as she turned away; "it must be
so."

The festivities of the day were finished and all was quiet in the
Garden. The moon now rose and soon its light touched the Lilac Bush. At
the touch the sweet perfume of the Lilac rose like a cloud of incense
from the Bush. The air was filled with it, but the Bush was now
deserted. "It was a great gift," it said, "that I should be permitted to
have so much enjoyment. I am indeed happy, though twelve long months
must pass before I bloom again, and these blossoms now upon me have lost
their fragrance and shall fall to the ground. Yes, it is sweet to live,
even though one's flowers die and one's fragrance is lost."

But the fragrance was not lost. It rose higher and higher; the clouds
kept it not back and it ascended even to heaven.

[Illustration]

Horace E. Scudder

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