The tender charm of poetry and love.

William Wordsworth, 1770–1850.

THE FOREST-LEAVES IN AUTUMN.

FROM “THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.”

Red o’er the forest peers the setting sun;

The line of yellow light dies fast away

That crown’d the eastern copse; and chill and dun

Falls on the moor the brief November day.

Now the tir’d hunter winds a parting note,

And Echo bids good-night from every glade;