[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.