. Twelve months with the birds and poets. Birds; Birds in literature. OCTOBER. There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood,— And my heart is like a rhyme. With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keep- ing time. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills. There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir. We must rise and follow her. When from every hill of flame She calls and calls each vagabond by name. —Bliss Carman. OW that
. Twelve months with the birds and poets. Birds; Birds in literature. OCTOBER. There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood,— And my heart is like a rhyme. With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keep- ing time. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills. There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir. We must rise and follow her. When from every hill of flame She calls and calls each vagabond by name. —Bliss Carman. OW that the Tanager has laid aside his brilliant scarlet coat and gone to his winter home and left the landscape bare, gentle Autumn, with colors gay, creeps quietly over the wooded hills and down into the sleeping valleys, slowly touching the green and gray with crimson and gold, until in mid- Octobqr, finding none to dispute her royal right to beautify the world, she boldly flings abroad her. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Samuel A. (Samuel Alain), b. 1875. [Chicago, R. F. Seymour
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