The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-19
Autumn Poetry.

You know, or will learn by and by, |
that we need never lose anything which /
has really made our life blessed, except /
by our own fault. If we have taken the /
Iovelincss around Us into heart and soul, /
and not merely glanced at it idly, it has |
become an immortal possession; or all /
true beauty is poured into our lives out |
Of the heart of Him who Is the Infinitely |.
/ Beautiful, and every gift He bestOws Is /
/ perfect and indestructible.
Have you ever thought about the
/ shading-of OF one season into another
/ how gradual and delicate it and what
/ charm it adds to the year You can not
/ tell exactly when midsummer has passed
/ into autumn, any more than g6u can
/ draw a sharp line between the red and
/ the orange in the rainbow. Nature
/ shades her colors more exquisitely than
any artist, and it Is in this magical blend
/ ing that half her poetry i found. The
/ four seasons make q visible harmony, like
! four voices 30 perfectly accOrdant that
YOU hear them as one in a song for there
/ is an eye-music As well as that which
enters the ear.
Late in August, you come in your
rambles upon some hidden pool OF the
woodlands, and find to your surprise, the
water-lilies still awake here and there; and
on the margin of the pond. the most mag
niticent blossom of midsummer, the cardl-
nal flower. What q contrast they make
that pure whiteness, crystal born, and
that inimitable led which seems burst
of the inter,scst warmth had hid in the
/ bosom OF the earth The white clematis
or virgins bower, hangs its graceful
streamers along the wood paths, yelling
the departing footsteps of Summer, whom
Autumn has already come to meet, scat
tering Golden rod about, SIS an admittance
fee into the grounds of the detironed
queen.
Beautiful poems have been written
about the passing of summer into au-
tumn. Mrs. IIemans sings her regret IN
one beginning:
Thou are bearing hence thy roses,
Glad summer, fare thee well
Thou art singing thy last mclonies
an every wood ami deli
a still Day in Autumn" by Mrs.
Sarah Helen Whitman, take you into
the dreamy atmosphere of the beautiful
F September days. Here are twAor three
stanzas OF it.
s.I love 10 wander through the woodlands hoary
Ia the soft light OF an sulumnal day,
When summer gathers up her rotes OF Ei5IE'
; And like a dream Of beauty sldes away
Glow thro' each loved familiar path she lingers,
Serrnely smiling through the golden mist
TIMING the Wild grape with her dewy fingers
I'LL the cool emerald turns 20 amethyst!
"Walm lights are on The SLEEPY uplands waning
Beneath soft clouds along the hOtlL8u rolled
Tia the slant sUnbeams through their lrlnges
Battle all the hills in melancholy gold"
In one of Alice Carey's songs Of the
autumn days she writes that
Summer from her golden collar slips.
And strays through stub5le-iieds, and means
aloud,-
save when 10y fts the warmer air deceiyes,
And, stealing hopeful 20 some sheltered bower
she lies pillows % the yellow leaves,
Aud tries the Old tuues over Tor AZ hour
The poet Whittier paints in glowing
words the flowers that blossom between
, summer and fall
along the roadside, like the flowers o. gold
That tawny luCas for their gardens wrought,
Heavy with sunshine, droops the golden rod
and the red Peunons OF the cardinal hover
Hang motionless upon tketr upright slaves
And LoDgfellow addresses autumn As
coming
! "With banners by great gales iucessant famed,
, Br CATER than brightest silks % Salnarcana-
Thou standest, like imperial ChaTleInagnei
Upon thy bridge Of gold, thy royal hand
UGtstretched with Denedictions Ger the land'
LOwelIs 80 Indian Summer Reyerie' Is
full of splendid description:
"The birch, most shy and lady-lIke Of trees,
Her poverty, as best she may retrleVe-i
And hints at her foreZyue geutuiiIes
With some saved relics of her wealth OF leaves
'Ibe swamp-oak. with ts royal purple on,
Glares red as blood across the setting sun,
as one gho pr0udlier fallen fortune cieares;
- leo -. .nsrn.sn, an red blanket wrapt.'
- s,ia, fik., So sttn-.t -ea