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Month of fruits and falling leaves, Under thy opalescent skies The vagrant summer idly lies, While coming Autumn deftly weaves Rare tints for tall ungarnered sheaves Of goldenrod, kissing the eyes Of purple asters as she dyes The vine that swings beneath the eaves. And all the bending hedgerows seem A Joseph's coat of colors. Hues That shame the rainbow's royal arch Set all the harvest fields a-gleam With beauty, fresh with fragrant dews To crown the season's onward march.
Month of fruits and falling leaves, Under thy opalescent skies The vagrant summer idly lies, While coming Autumn deftly weaves Rare tints for tall ungarnered sheaves Of goldenrod, kissing the eyes Of purple asters as she dyes The vine that swings beneath the eaves. And all the bending hedgerows seem A Joseph's coat of colors. Hues That shame the rainbow's royal arch Set all the harvest fields a-gleam With beauty, fresh with fragrant dews To crown the season's onward march.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- George W. Shipman
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 317; printed byline: George W. Shipman; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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