Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-23
T is a literary habit to look on
autumn az the sad season of the
year. Nearly every writer choos'

himself into an eiesiaC Hooo @ho
means mournful lines. Even people
who have better sense than to spend
their time in writing also. have. the
habit Of calling autumn a sad season.
Whether these people got the dis
NAL autumn idea from the prose and
, metrical poets or whether those
poets have echoed the words and re-
fected the thoughts of other men.
the Rambler does not know. But
poets and other writers get SO few
ideas from within themselves that 1t
might be fair guess that they got
this sad and dirging autumn stun
from somebody else. On the other
hand, prose and lyric writer's have
thought 60 many things that amt so
and have given brain birth to 80
many cracked and twisted and tan
gled ideas that they may have in
vented the gloomous autumn legend.
: Poets and other kinds II writer's are
blameworthy in SO many things that
they may be also blamable In this.
POETS especially have so many sins
to answer for that charging to their
account one more may not break the
poets back. -.
The Rambler, has no doubt that the
records Of the weather bureau ex-
tending, back over q long series OF
years will show that autumn, Is just
as happy as any other season OF the
wear. The most distinguished me-
2teoro}ogists, SO far as the Rambler
can ascertain without walking up 10
the weather bureau, have never writ
"a, anv Jeremiac essays on the sad
neas OF autumn
II tie autumnal mourners oase
their belief in the unhappiness Oh
that season on the weather the Ham-
bier will submit his testimony that
ha has seen more bad weather on
March, 4,or on st. Patrick's day than
on any dag in September, OCTOBER
and November. and he beheVes 'hal
= more rain falls when the circus COMES
10 town in the gay ana 1up'iah.
months of spring than falls IN sau
November. Longfellow was one OIL
the few sensible poets on the the"e
,f autumn. He saw autumn as au-
tumn is and wrote what he saw:
with what glory comes and goes the year
,rh. hpas Of spring, those beautiful harbingers
or suuny skies and cloudiess times. ENJOY
rssa. newncss. and earth's graniture spreads
- out;
. And when the silver habit Of the clouds
Cou,es down upon the autumn sun, and with
A .ober rlsdness the old year takes up
H,s bright inheritance Of golden fruits,
A Mann and pageant I'LL the splendid scene.
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now
Its mellow richness on the clustered trees
And, from beaker full Of richest dyes
Pouring new glory on the autumn WOODS
And dipping in warm light the piliared cloaos
Morn on the mountain. like summer gird'
IAfta up her purple wing, and IN the Va'es
The gentle wind, sweet and passionate "''ef
Kisses the blushing leaf. and stirs up life
Within the solemn woods OF ash deep-cfl"s"heo'
Ard silver beech. and ample yellow-leayed,
where autumn, like faint old man. sHs oo"h
BY the wayside a-weary.
william Cullen Bryant. great man
1 that he was. fell into the common line
of thought about autumn when he
wrote: ,-..
7 The melancholy days are come.
The saddest Of the year.
OF wailing winds and naked woods
. And meadows brown and sere. ~.
.Hesp'd in the hollows Of the grove
The withered leaves lie dead;
They rustic to the eddying gust
And to the rabbits tread.
ahe robin and the wren are Town.
And from the shrub the jay, -..
And from the wood top calls the crew 81.
Through all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers. the fair Young flowers,
That lately sprung and stood - -s
In brighter light and softer airs.
beauteous ;sisterhood? o..
Alas! they are all In their graves.
The gentle race Of flowers -
z Ar. lying in their holy beas,' g. +'
with the fair and good of ours.
The rain is falling where they lie;
81 But the cold November rain
: Calls not from out the gloomy earth
y ., The lovely ones again
-. The thought of the Rambler on this
is thatrWilliam Cullen Bryant picked
out a bad day for his trip to the coun-
try: and left his raincoat and water
proof shoes at home. The Rambler
means not to quarrel with a man whc