Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 501
sWait,—one lilac bud I saw.Icy hillsides feel the thaw;April chased off March to-day;Now I catch a glimpse of May. Oh, the smell of sprouting grass!In a blur the violets pass.Whispering from the wildwood comeMayflowers breath and insects hum.Roses carpeting the ground;Thrushes, orioles, warbling… … They are gone; the golden-rodFlashes from the dark green sod.Crickets in the grass I hear;Asters light the fading year. Slower still! October weavesRainbows of the forest leaves.Gentians fringed, like eyes of blue,Glimmer out of sleety dew.Meadow-green I sadly miss:Winds through withered sedges…
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