Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Walt Mason's Rhymes. [ARTICLE]

Walt Mason's Rhymes.

Come, gentle Fall! Imperial Autumn, come! Heat long endured has knocked us out of plumb; sagged in the back and wabbly in the knees, humbly we beg a breath of Autumn breeze. Long have we watched the redhot days drag by, panting and sick beneath a well-done sky; as people long, when Winter has its fling, long for the glow and genial warmth of Spring, so do we yearn, our backs against the wall, yearn for your chill, O life-preserving Fall! Bring on your frost, regardless of expense! Bid Summer quit, hid heat go jumping hence! Wilted we stand, a weary, washed-out band, hoping that snow will come and hide the land, muttering low, amid the endless heat,“Fall, when you come, bring forty kinds of sleet! Let every gust be born of arctic snows, freeze all our ears, put chilblains in our toes! Cover our spinach with a coat of rime, let us be cold, for three months at a time!” Let us repeat, ere heat hath made us dumb, Come, gentle Fall, imperial Autumn, come!