Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1910 — Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 1 [MISCELLANEOUS]

Mournful Autumn. The melancholy days have come. And everything is out of plumb. The wind comes wailing from the west And searches out the summer vest. Map buttons up his coat and sighs As sand and cordwood fill his eyes: “This sort of weather is a crime. Gome back, you good old summer timer The breezes play a mournful tune, A wail for the departed June. The furnace gives a soulful wheeze And says. “Some fuel. If you please.” The air, a heavy ashen gray. . Mocks at the one who would be gay. And o’er the meadows sear and brown Five feet of woe have settled down. Across the dull and leaden sky The sun retiring floats and shy. , A dim and quite discouraged balL The forest giants, stark and tall. Wear branches bare enough to rush To beauty’s modest cheek a blush. All nature proves in language mute The year is slipping down the chute. Dead leaves around the doorsteps creep. The cheer up man goes home to weep. The one who never cracks a smile Feels -that the world has swiped his style; A lone and Solitary crow Caws out a prophecy of snow. And over countryside and town Grim visaged autumn settles down.