. Wild life near home . [94] IN THE OCTOBEE MOON. IN THE OCTOBER MOON AN October night, calm, crisp, and moonlit!JTJl There is a delicate aroma from the fallingleaves in the air, as sweet as the scent of fresh-filled haymows. The woods are silent, shadowy,and sleepful, lighted dimly by the moon, as avague, happy dream lights the dark valley of oursleep. Dreamful is this night world, but yet notdreaming. When, in the highest noon, did everyleaf, every breeze, seem so much a self, so full ofready life? The very twigs that lie luittle anddead beneath our feet seem wakeful now and onthe alert. In
. Wild life near home . [94] IN THE OCTOBEE MOON. IN THE OCTOBER MOON AN October night, calm, crisp, and moonlit!JTJl There is a delicate aroma from the fallingleaves in the air, as sweet as the scent of fresh-filled haymows. The woods are silent, shadowy,and sleepful, lighted dimly by the moon, as avague, happy dream lights the dark valley of oursleep. Dreamful is this night world, but yet notdreaming. When, in the highest noon, did everyleaf, every breeze, seem so much a self, so full ofready life? The very twigs that lie luittle anddead beneath our feet seem wakeful now and onthe alert. In this silence we feel myriad mov-ings everywhere ; and we know that this sleep7 [07] is but the sleep of the bivouac fires, that an armyis breaking camp to move under cover of thenight. Every wild thing that knows the darkwill be stirring to-night. And what softest footcan fall without waking the woods ? Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbits tread. Not a mouse can scurry
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