Fame had never whispered then, Making slaves of eager men; Greed had never called me down To the gray walls of the town, Offering frankincense and myrrh If I'd be its prisoner; I was free to come and go Where the cherry blossoms blow, Free to wander where I would, Finding life supremely good.

[Terence]; liberavi animam meam [Lat.]; as frank as rain on cherry blossoms [E.B. Browning].

Beyond the gates they followed the shelving road till they came to green level fields, and there in the middle of the road, between grassy banks covered white with cherry blossom, two great white oxen, yoked to a huge block of stone, stood resting before they began the toilsome ascent.

As she spoke she drew a little closer to him and her hand touched his as softly as a drifting feather or a blown cherry blossom might have touched it.

So we sipped the well-made breakfast tea beneath the cherry blossoms as I told her about my boys and Miss Lavinia's expected visit.

The joyful festivals of the cherry blossom, the wistaria, the iris and chrysanthemum, the sombre colours of the beech blossom and the paths about the lotus gardens, where mankind meditated in solemn mood.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE OURSLER, FULTON.

April Oursler Armstrong, Fulton Oursler, Jr., Helen Oursler Balaber & Will Oursler (C); 27Aug64; R344238. Springtime and cherry blossoms.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE Oursler, Fulton.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE Oursler, Fulton.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE OURSLER, FULTON.

April Oursler Armstrong, Fulton Oursler, Jr., Helen Oursler Balaber & Will Oursler (C); 27Aug64; R344238. Springtime and cherry blossoms.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE Oursler, Fulton.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE Oursler, Fulton.

CHAPTER VIII THE LOLAB May 1.The pear and cherry blossom has been so lovely in and around Srinagar that we determined to go to the Lolab Valley and see the apple blossom in full flower.

Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up specimen of an antique virtue preserved in the herbarium of our history.

When the Creator himself is pictured as making new resolutions in his heart upon smelling a sweet savor (Gen. VIII, 21), is it any wonder that the sweet-smelling season of the cherry blossom should call forth the whole nation from their little habitations?

Having no set dogma or formula to defend, it can afford to disappear as an entity; like the cherry blossom, it is willing to die at the first gust of the morning breeze.

Over the expanses of green and brown fields, and hovering about the gray and white cottages, was a mist of peach and cherry blossoms.

The very worldly minded and the young are on deck reluctantly finishing the last dance under a canopy of make-believe cherry blossoms and wistaria.

The tapestry and crape hangings are embroidered with cherry blossoms, its one picture is a sweet spring landscape.

The lilies are blooming, The lilies are white, Where his play haunts used to be; And the sweet cherry blossoms Blow over the bosoms Of birds in the old roof tree.

The leaping streams, and the small waterfalls, white and foamingthe cherry blossom, the white farms, the dark yews which are the northern cypressesand the tall upstanding firs and hollies, vigorously black against the delicate bareness of the fells, like some passionate self-assertive life.... 'The "old" statesman B. His talk of the gentle democratic poet who used to live in the cottage before us.

Here are shown padded silks of the most delicate shades, on which deft fingers have embroidered the ever-present Chinese stork and cherry blossoms, as realistic as if painted with an artist's brush.

I rode home very fast, in spite of the exquisite fragrance of the wild cherry blossoms, the carpets and curtains of wild flowers, among which a sort of glorified dandelion glowed conspicuously; dandelions such as I should think grew in the garden of Eden, if there were any at all there.