Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 4, October 1898

<h2><SPAN name="GOLDENROD" id="GOLDENROD"></SPAN>GOLDENROD.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse"><span style="margin-left:-2.2em;"> <ANTIMG src="images/initial_s_2.jpg" width-obs="26" height-obs="25" alt="S" title="" /> PRING is the morning of the year,</span></div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">And Summer is the noontide bright;</div> <div class="verse">The Autumn is the evening clear</div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">That comes before the Winter's night.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">And in the evening, everywhere</div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">Along the roadside, up and down,</div> <div class="verse">I see the golden torches flare</div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">Like lighted street-lamps in the town.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">I think the Butterfly and Bee,</div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">From distant meadows coming back,</div> <div class="verse">Are quite contented when they see</div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">These lamps along the homeward track.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">But those who stay too late get lost;</div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">For when the darkness falls about,</div> <div class="verse">Down every lighted street the frost</div> <div class="verse indent-1_5">Will go and put the torches out!</div> <div class="verse ar">&mdash;<i>Frank Dempster Sherman.</i></div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</SPAN></span></p> <table class="sp2 mc w50 p2" title="GOLDEN ROD." summary="GOLDEN ROD."> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3"><span class="ac w100 figcenter"> <SPAN name="i_066.jpg" id="i_066.jpg"> <ANTIMG style="width:100%" src="images/i_066.jpg" width="466" height="600" alt="" /></SPAN></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">From col. Chi. Acad. Sciences.</td> <td class="x-smaller ac w40">GOLDEN ROD.<br/> &#8536; Life-size.</td> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Copyright by<br/> Nature Study Pub. Co., 1898, Chicago.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />