Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1908 — GOOD-BY. [ARTICLE]

GOOD-BY.

Oh, little green grasses and little green • tree. We'll soon be bidding good-by unto theeThe year’s In the shadow, the sun’s on the wane, And little cool messages come with the rain: Hands full of peaches and cheeks full of gloom. Good-by to the beauty, good-by to the bloom! The second-brood nests are a-swlng In the briar, And home-again robin sings sweetheart's desire; Apples are falling and berries are gone. And grave Lady August is sad in the dawn. With mists all around her and dew on her head. And the brown in the grass where her weary feet tread! Good-by, little beetles; good-by little bird; Good-by, little blossoms; oh, sorrowful word — But love never sings It, and there on the hill The glow of her summer will startle us still When autumn comes up through the valley of gray To tint the brown ghosts of the blossoms of May!