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Thought for Autumn

Do not, I ask, sigh wistfully,
“Another perfect summer gone.”
With every bold leaf shaking free
A perfect autumn carries on.

The yellow corn is stacks of gold;
The mists across the fields unfold,
Unveiling friendly blue and white
Warm skies that turn to frost at night.
The nuts high on the hickory tree
To grass-folk spell catastrophe,
But children in the heaped-up leaves
Laugh in the spell the season weaves.

So let the perfect summer be
To all things past, a paragon;
With every bold leaf shaking free
A perfect autumn carries on.

by Ray Romine Thursday, September 14, 1950

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Media name: Nature

Date Submitted: 02/15/1951

Media name: Ladies Home Journal

Date Submitted: 02/24/1951

Media name: Life & Health

Date Submitted: 03/14/1951

Media name: Southwest Review

Date Submitted: 03/21/1951

Media name: Farmer-Stockman

Date Submitted: 04/01/1951

Media name: New York Times (Daily)

Date Submitted: 07/25/1951

Media name: Christian Science Monitor

Date Submitted: 08/23/1951

Media name: Denver Post

Date Submitted: 09/04/1951

Media name: Saturday Evening Post Baok of Book

Date Submitted: 08/07/1952

Media name: Christian Science Monitor

Date Submitted: 08/21/1952

Media name: Washington Star

Date Submitted: 08/29/1952

Media name: Christian Science Forum

Date Submitted: 09/08/1952

Media name: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Date Submitted: 10/13/1952

Media name: True Confessions

Date Submitted: 06/20/1953

Media name: Toronto Star

Date Submitted: 07/23/1953

Media name: Farm Journal

Date Submitted: 03/11/1954