Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 552
A HEADING FOR SEPTEMBER. «Y NETTIE S. WILSON, AGE IO WHEN THE HARVEST TIME IS HERE. BY RUTH E. MCKEAN (AGE 17). When the grapes are getting purple, And the leaves are turning brown,And the apples from the tree-tops Are a-falling slowly down,When the frosty nights of autumn Loose the nuts from up on… … and now they turn along the road and gailyonward come. (see poem.) The careful store of summer daysThe earth with bounty yields, And goldenrod, the fairies torch,Is glowing in the fields. When early gentians peeping outReflect the heavens dome, Across the golden fields we hearThe cry of, Harvest…
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