AUTUMN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 77

AUTUMN.

0 'tis a very gladness to be living, When/ lark to lark responses sweet are giv ing. Here in the autumn-tide, Clear, creasy streams beside, That through th» dowy meadowlands by ferns and mosses glide; When mellow fruitfulness and slow decay Th« Btealrihiness ol Winter's step betrayWhen sfceaves of drooping grain I No longer kde the wain, And voyaging clouds converge about th« crags again; When silvery mushrooms peer from out the grasses, When musty fragrance fills the breeze that passes By old wood borders and around Tha mountain base 3, glcomed, profound, By pines, rock-pedestalled for miles, where moving waters sound; When breaking slow along the shelving sands The misted ocean fills the n&ighbouiing land 3 With premonition. Organ-toned, The deep beneath the land hath. moaned Sine^ ever waves and tides an Orphean influence owned; When later in the tinted Orient The roay curtains from his couch are rent, And slowy reluctantly, the sun DispeTseth shadows, lingering, dun, As eager to converge whene'er his race b« run; When, later, heavier in the ferny dells, The ' dews begem the fragrant slopes and ■ umlls, And earlier day by tranquil day The lingering glory fades awty From uiany a> hoary steep find misted aonv nolent bay! : There is a gladness in perfected beauty, There is a, glory in accomplished duty, & j The sweetness of the spriug/' f ? ij ' For ever lingering — 1 shed no tears o'«r hoary grain while larkf triumphant sing. — Chahuss Obcab Pjluiu. Enikouia, March, 1907.

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