Tuesday, October 16, 2012

arrow-heads of gold

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

--William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) poet, journalist.

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