Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-12-01
Autumn Thoughts.
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| There can be nothing sadder than the sol
emn hush Of nature that precede, the death
Of the year. The golden glory of Autumn.
with the billowy bronIed and velvet azure
of the skies above the royai robes Of oak
aud maple bespeak the closing hours Of ma
ture's teeming life and the silent farewell To
humanitys gauze underwear.
Thus while nature dons her regal robes Of
scarlet and gold in honor of the farewell
benefit to Autumn. the sad eyed poet steals
swiftly away to the neighboring clothes line
and in the hour Of natures grand blow out
| dons the flaming fannels OF his friend out
! of respect for the hectic flush Of the diving
year.
Leaves have their time to fall. and so has
the price Of coal. And yet how sadly at va
rance with decaying nature is the robust
coal market
Another glorious summer with its wealth
Of pleasant memories is stored away among
the archives Of our history Another gloomy
winter IS upon us. These wonderful colurs
that flame across the softened SKY Of Indian
Summer like the CORY banner Of royal
conqueror, come but to warn US that in a few
short weeks the water pipe will burst in the
kitchen and the decorated wash bowl will I've
broken.
We fit through the dreamy hours of sum
mer ike swift winged humble bees amid the
honeysuckle and pumpkin blossoms, storing
away perhaps little glucose honey and
buckw heat pancakes for the future but all
at once like newspaper thief in the night.
the King Of frost and ripe. mellow chilblalns
are upon Us. and We crouch beneath the
wintry blast and hump our spinal column up
into the crisp air Ike a Texas steer that has
thoughtlessly swallowed raw cactus
Life is one continual round Of alternate
JOYS and sorrovs. To-da, ve are on the top
wave Of pro.perit, and warming ourselves
IN the glad sunlight Of plenty. and to- NOR
row We are cast down and depressed tinan-
cially, and have to stand up the va.herwo-
man for our clean shirt or stay at home from
the opera.
The October sky already frowns down up
on u.s. aud It's frozen tears begin 10 fall
The little birds have hushcd their little lay
So has the fatigued hen Onl, a little while
and the ,a~ning chasm in the cold, calm
feature, Of the Thank ,givins turkey will be
filed with 'oluptuous stutiing and then
-ewrd up. The forld features Of the poly
gamous gohher will be wrapped in sadness
and cranberry pie will BE- 4 burden, for The
veal outlet gocth TO IT, long home and the
ice cream freezer Is broken IN the wood
house
on, time thou bald hraded pelican, with
the venerable corn cutter and the second
hand hour gtas-, thou playest strange pranks
upon the children of men. No ono would
think To look al Your bilious countenance
and store teeth that in thy bony bosom urk-
ed such eccentric schrmr,
The chubby boN. who,r danger signal
hangs sadly through the lattice work Of has
pants, knows that time who wait, for no
man. Will one day. II he struggles hcroically
on. give him knowledge and -u,pcndrrs, and
,u.Id girl. and experience, and a soft, white
mu-tachc, and eventually low grave IN the
valley beneath the sIghIng elm- and the
weeping willow, where IN the misty twilight
Of the year. uots,lrS~ly upon hi, breast shall
fall the dead leaf. while the silent tear Of
the grat autumna! ,ky viii come and sink
into the yellow sra,, above hi, head.