Evening damps begin to fall, Wheel the swallows home in crowds, The Golden Legend-4. Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October Seize them, and whirl them aloft. Evangeline-Introduction. Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain, O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with a fervent heart goes forth Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed, and days well spent! For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings. October 2. Autumn. Not alone in Spring's armorial bearing, In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Game of Flowers. October 3. Flowers. Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer! Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night! Hymn to the Night. Toil comes with the morning, And rest with the night. Curfew. I saw the branches of the trees A Gleam of Sunshine. O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John, To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on." Hymn-" For my Brother's Ordination.” October 5. This is the cry Of souls, that high, On toiling, beating pinions fly, Seeking a warmer clime. From their distant flight It falls into our world of night, With the murmuring sound of rhyme. October 6. Birds of Passage. When she had passed, it seemed Evangeline-Part 1, sec. 1. So long as you are innocent, fear nothing, No one can harm you! The Spanish Student-Act 2, sc. 1. |