Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — THE INDIAN SUMMER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE INDIAN SUMMER

Now glows the sunset Uke a crest. High fed with fire—and flaming tips Reach up to vie with crimson West Where bloody cloud Its lingerie dips! The mirrored stream drones In a rhyme Toward Its haven in the sea, And thus our lives in Autumn time, Float onward to Eternity! The seed we sowed, the grain we won. Is weighed tn hearts made sad or light—

By Byron Williams.

Oh, joyous he whose summer done, Knows not of wind swept field or blight! O'er rock strewn paths, by dead hopes gray. Or through the wood ablaze with red, We move along that self-same way Where living deeds our trail has sped! "Tie sweet to feel our course is right. When Life floats 'gehtly out to sea, That God. in his supremest might. Still guides tbs ship Eternity!