Her kinship to the remnant lingering still,

Whose cone-shaped lodges picturesquely stood,

Dotting the hither base of yonder hill,

Like late leaves clinging, spite of growing chill,

Upon the boughs of a November wood.

Changing our mood, we idly drifted there,

Two happy children in a cradling shell

Poised ’twixt two azure vaults; the mystic spell

Of Indian summer brooded in the air,

Filling with human love and sympathy