Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-16
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
October's Golden Wine.
(SprinGiield Republican,

NoITlIlSlleIO 1IcnuDIlCdI-'
Pour. Autumn. pour thy golden wine!
| that all may drink thereof and be glad.
Smile in proud bounty. rus:et-chcekcd
Pomona! with thy wicker baskets brim-
ming with grapes. scattering fragrance.
and thy train of fortunate labor garner
| ing apples. in these dcep-breathinS
days OF robust air. Repose awhile. q
rustic Pam on the hill sides above the
| harvested fields. and where the great
chestnutS cast their nuts at thy feet as
tribute. 1t is a season when 1.-The fair
humanit;es of old religion are most
real; it's sure that dryads are disport-
| ing themselves beneath the reddeniEg
white oaks, or amid the hemlOch
shades; and on the sunny lodges of the
mountain the faunS, and here and Their
| a harmless satyr grins kindly Fancy
revives to the representations of the
elder faiths. when all was God, for all
was Nature.
1t is the very magical complement of
spring: as all came in with joy, so AL
departs, and the poet we'll exclaimed,
with what a glory comes and goes
the year. The rains themselves are a
delight, for we know how the springs
fill, and the brooks rush in summer
dried channels. and renew the charms
of the vast life that even now is pre-
pairing all things that grow for the
vernal reiuVeneScence.T Thus are the sea-
sons knit together by that wondrous
preparation of buds for the impulse of
resistcss vitality that does not even
pause beneath the SHOWS that are COM
ing. What does this not say for our own
Inn nn-onjno' here N
fill the springs of our winter and as
sure the fountains OF further life. for
more abundance.
All the chords Of unit> in multitude,
the strains of harmony in diversity. the
symphony of many motives developing
st i'll larger meanings for a great sum-
nation. when into the all-enuracinS
Spirit all spirits flow. and our small
interests are lost, our enduring inter-
tests grow into infinity!
The earth is now in this region APP
preaching its acme of glorious beauty.
Color is revealing the splendOr of
Nature which Sir Thomas Browne
called the art of God" The slow of
the suniacs and the blackberry vines OH
the side hills long since forecast the
deeper. richer, more various glow of the
Woodlands. Many q flower has surreE1 =
cred its phenomenal loneliness to the
chill breeZes, but yet there are here and
there asters and goldenrOds. though the
great purple and gold display no longer
daZzles the eyes in the fields. but in
stead feathery pappus begins 10 float
upon the air. and the seeds are ripeninS
for the birds of winter and spring The
unique bloom and fragrance Of the
witch hazel has been seen for weeks by
those who have eyes and nOstrils that
are sensitive. but its full richness is yet
to come in the last weeks Of October.
The fringed gentians, in such places
as they choose to favor, greet the wan
derer. in swales and on rocky hills. with
Il happy ard vet solemn welcome. ask
ing fer respect and honor as the
triumph of the floral record. Yes. we
are in the latter days, we have been
having the latter rains and shall have
more. But now it is that the golden
win" * pOIlrcG-a sacrament of divine
farewell