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To fall within Thy ways。



Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz '?…1933'





SCYTHE SONG



Mowers; weary and brown; and blithe;

What is the word methinks ye know;

Endless over…word that the Scythe

Sings to the blades of the grass below?

Scythes that swing in the grass and clover;

Something; still; they say as they pass;

What is the word that; over and over;

Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass?



Hush; ah hush; the Scythes are saying;

Hush; and heed not; and fall asleep;

Hush; they say to the grasses swaying;

Hush; they sing to the clover deep!

Hush … 'tis the lullaby Time is singing …

Hush; and heed not; for all things pass;

Hush; ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging

Over the clover; over the grass!



Andrew Lang '1844…1912'





SEPTEMBER



Sweet is the voice that calls

From babbling waterfalls

In meadows where the downy seeds are flying;

And soft the breezes blow;

And eddying come and go;

In faded gardens where the rose is dying。



Among the stubbled corn

The blithe quail pipes at morn;

The merry partridge drums in hidden places;

And glittering insects gleam

Above the reedy stream;

Where busy spiders spin their filmy laces。



At eve; cool shadows fall

Across the garden wall;

And on the clustered grapes to purple turning;

And pearly vapors lie

Along the eastern sky;

Where the broad harvest…moon is redly burning。



Ah; soon on field and hill

The winds shall whistle chill;

And patriarch swallows call their flocks together

To fly from frost and snow;

And seek for lands where blow

The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather。



The pollen…dusted bees

Search for the honey…lees

That linger in the last flowers of September;

While plaintive mourning doves

Coo sadly to their loves

Of the dead summer they so well remember。



The cricket chirps all day;

〃O fairest summer; stay!〃

The squirrel eyes askance the chestnuts browning;

The wild fowl fly afar

Above the foamy bar;

And hasten southward ere the skies are frowning。



Now comes a fragrant breeze

Through the dark cedar…trees;

And round about my temples fondly lingers;

In gentle playfulness;

Like to the soft caress

Bestowed in happier days by loving fingers。



Yet; though a sense of grief

Comes with the falling leaf;

And memory makes the summer doubly pleasant;

In all my autumn dreams

A future summer gleams;

Passing the fairest glories of the present!



George Arnold '1834…1865'





INDIAN SUMMER



These are the days when birds come back;

A very few; a bird or two;

To take a backward look。



These are the days when skies put on

The old; old sophistries of June; …

A blue and gold mistake。



Oh; fraud that cannot cheat the bee;

Almost thy plausibility

Induces my belief;



Till ranks of seeds their witness bear;

And softly through the altered air

Hurries a timid leaf!



Oh; sacrament of summer days;

Oh; last communion in the haze;

Permit a child to join;



Thy sacred emblems to partake;

Thy consecrated bread to break;

Taste thine immortal wine!



Emily Dickinson '1830…1886'





PREVISION



Oh; days of beauty standing veiled apart;

With dreamy skies and tender; tremulous air;

In this rich Indian summer of the heart

Well may the earth her jewelled halo wear。



The long brown fields … no longer drear and dull …

Burn with the glow of these deep…hearted hours。

Until the dry weeds seem more beautiful;

More spiritlike than even summer's flowers。



But yesterday the world was stricken bare;

Left old and dead in gray; enshrouding gloom;

To…day what vivid wonder of the air

Awakes the soul of vanished light and bloom?



Sharp with the clean; fine ecstasy of death;

A mightier wind shall strike the shrinking earth;

An exhalation of creative breath

Wake the white wonder of the winter's birth。



In her wide Pantheon … her temple place …

Wrapped in strange beauty and new comforting;

We shall not miss the Summer's full…blown grace;

Nor hunger for the swift; exquisite Spring。



Ada Foster Murray '1857…1936'





A SONG OF EARLY AUTUMN



When late in summer the streams run yellow;

Burst the bridges and spread into bays;

When berries are black and peaches are mellow;

And hills are hidden by rainy haze;



When the goldenrod is golden still;

But the heart of the sunflower is darker and sadder;

When the corn is in stacks on the slope of the hill;

And slides o'er the path the striped adder;



When butterflies flutter from clover to thicket;

Or wave their wings on the drooping leaf;

When the breeze comes shrill with the call of the cricket;

Grasshopper's rasp; and rustle of sheaf;



When high in the field the fern…leaves wrinkle;

And brown is the grass where the mowers have mown;

When low in the meadow the cow…bells tinkle;

And small brooks crinkle o'er stock and stone;



When heavy and hollow the robin's whistle

And shadows are deep in the heat of noon;

When the air is white with the down o' the thistle;

And the sky is red with the harvest moon;



O; then be chary; young Robert and Mary;

No time let slip; not a moment wait!

If the fiddle would play it must stop its tuning;

And they who would wed must be done with their mooning;

So let the churn rattle; see well to the cattle;

And pile the wood by the barn…yard gate!



Richard Watson Gilder '1844…1909'





TO AUTUMN



Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!

Close bosom…friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch…eaves run;

To bend with apples the mossed cottage…trees;

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd; and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more;

And still more; later flowers for the bees;

Until they think warm days will never cease;

For Summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells。



Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor;

Thy hair soft…lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half…reaped furrow sound asleep;

Drowsed with the fume of poppies; while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider…press; with patient look;

Thou watchest the last oozings; hours by hours。



Where are the songs of Spring?  Ay; where are they?

Think not of them; thou hast thy music too;

While barred clouds bloom the soft…dying day

And touch the stubble…plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river shallows; borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full…grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge…crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden…croft;

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies。



John Keats '1795…1821'





ODE TO AUTUMN



I saw old Autumn in the misty morn

Stand shadowless like Silence; listening

To silence; for no lonely bird would sing

Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn;

Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; …

Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright

With tangled gossamer that fell by night;

Pearling his coronet of golden corn。



Where are the songs of Summer? … With the sun;

Oping the dusky eyelids of the South;

Till shade and silence waken up as one;

And Morning sings with a warm odorous mouth。

Where are the merry birds? … Away; away;

On panting wings through the inclement skies;

Lest owls should prey

Undazzled at noonday;

And tear with horny beak their lustrous eyes。



Where are the blooms of Summer? … In the West;

Blushing their last to the last sunny hours;

When the mild Eve by sudden Night is pressed

Like tearful Prosperine; snatched from her flowers;

To a most gloomy breast。

Where is the pride of Summer; … the green prime; …

The many; many leaves all twinkling? … Three

On the mossed elm; three on the naked lime

Trembling; … and one upon the old oak…tree!

Where is the Dryad's immortality? …

Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew;

Or wearing the long gloomy Winter through

In the smooth holly's green eternity。



The squirrel gloats on his accomplished hoard;

The ants have brimmed their garners with ripe grain;

And honey bees have stored

The sweets of Summer in their luscious cells;

The swallows all have winged across the main;

But here the Autumn melancholy dwells;

And sighs her tearful spells

Amongst the sunless shadows of the plain。

Alone; alone;

Upon a mossy stone;

She sits and reckons up the dead and gone;

With the last leaves for a love…rosary;

Whilst all the withered world looks drearily;

Like a dim picture of the drowned past

In the hushed mind's mysterious far away;

Doubtful what ghostly thing will steal the last

Into that distance; gray upon the gray。



O go and sit with her; and be o'ershaded

Under the languid downfall of her hair:

She wears a coronal of flowers faded

Upon her forehead; and a face of care; …

There is enough of withered everywhere

To make her bower; … and enough of gloom;

There is enough of sadness to invite;

If only for the rose that died; whose doom

Is Beauty's; … she that with the living bloom

Of conscious cheeks most beautifies the light:

There is enough of sorrowing; and quite

Enough of bitter fruits the earth doth bear; …

Enough of chilly droppings for her bowl;

Enough of fear and shadowy despair;

To frame her cloudy prison for the soul!



Thomas Hood '1799…1845'





ODE TO THE WEST WIND



I

O Wild West Wind; thou breath of Autumn's being;

Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven; like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing;



Yellow and black; and pale; and hectic red;

Pestilence stricken multitude
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