IN AUTUMN.
The golden haze of Autumn creeps and dallies
Above the far horizon's misty rim;
The golden lights of Autumn fire the valleys,
While summer's fading beauties pale and dim.
Above the far horizon's misty rim;
The golden lights of Autumn fire the valleys,
While summer's fading beauties pale and dim.
And mellowed to a pure and deeper measure,
The murmuring wind sings lullabies of rest,
Low crooning to the safe and garnered treasure
That lies secure on Nature's loving breast.
The murmuring wind sings lullabies of rest,
Low crooning to the safe and garnered treasure
That lies secure on Nature's loving breast.
Forgot in happier sense of full fruition,
The grime and heat of labor's unrest cease;
Earth sleeps from all the dreams that wait ambition,
And joins with heaven in one fair hymn of peace.
The grime and heat of labor's unrest cease;
Earth sleeps from all the dreams that wait ambition,
And joins with heaven in one fair hymn of peace.
On what blest scene of love and joy supernal,
Beyond Time's changes safe and far away,
Beyond Time's changes safe and far away,
