AUTUMN.

The plentiful harvest is garnered in;

But I bring September’s bounteous store

Of glowing fruitage, all hearts to win;

Now the summer’s brilliant reign is o’er.

Now, royal October the scepter wields,

In whose wealth of rosy and mellow light

Seem glorified even the bare brown fields,

With their delicate veil of haze bedight.

And e’en when November, dark and chill,