[Music. “October’s Bright Blue Weather.” Modern Music Reader, Book II.]

[Enter Herald and October.]

Herald. Honorable judges, Golden October.

October. [Recites.]

I’m the month of wonderful color—to me

Belongs the beauty of changing tree.

Nuts drop for my friends on the countryside,

And over the landscape far and wide

I spread the loveliest purple haze

To soften the sun on my warmest days.