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Thought For Today

Elaine — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:22:39 +0000

I thought this was fitting since we saw our first snowflakes today.

November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.

~Elizabeth Coatsworth

October’s Party

Elaine — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:03:12 +0000

October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.

~George Cooper

Friday Favorite

Elaine — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:54:15 +0000

One ship sails East,
And one sails West,
By the self-same wind that blows;
‘Tis the set of the sail
And not the gale,
That determines the way it goes.

Like the ships of the sea
Are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life;
‘Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Autumn Dreams

Elaine — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:28:34 +0000

     I know the year is dying,
     Soon the summer will be dead.
     I can trace it in the flying
     Of the black crows overhead;
     I can hear it in the rustle
     Of the dead leaves as I pass,
     And the south wind’s plaintive sighing
     Through the dry and withered grass.

     Ah, ’tis then I love to wander,
     Wander idly and alone,
     Listening to the solemn music
     Of sweet nature’s undertone;
     Wrapt in thoughts I cannot utter,
     Dreams my tongue cannot express,
     Dreams that match the autumn’s sadness
     In their longing tenderness.

-Mortimer Crane Brown

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