But brown comes the autumn, and sear grows Ah ! on Thanksgiving Day, when from East an the corn,

from West, And the woods like a rainbow are dressed, From North and from South come the pilgrim And but for the cock and the noontide horn

and guest, Old Time would be tempted to rest.

When the gray-haired New-Englander secs round The humming bec fans off a shower of gold

his board From the mullein's long rod as it sways,

The old broken links of affection restored, And dry grow the leaves which protecting infold When the care-wcaricd man secks his mother once The ears of the well-ripened maize !

more, At length Indian Summer, the lovely, doth come,

| And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled

before, With its blue frosty nights, and days still,

What moistens thclip, and what brightens the eye? When distantly clear sounds the waterfall's hum,

What calls back the past like the rich pumpkinAnd the sun smokes ablaze on the hill ! A dim veil hangs over the landscape and flood,

• pie ? And the hills are all inellowed in haze,

0,— fruit loved of boyhood !- the old days reWhile fall, creeping on like a monk 'ncath his

calling, hood,

When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts Plucks the thick-rustling wealth of the maize.

were falling!

When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, And the heavy wains creak to the barns large

° | Glaring out through the dark with a candle within! and gray, Where the treasure securely we hold,

When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts

all in tune, Houscd safe from the tempest, dry - sheltered away,

Our chair a broad pumpkin, - our lantern the Onr blessing more precious than gold ! And long for this manna that springs from the

| Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam

In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her sod Shall we gratefully give Him the praise,

team ! The source of all bounty, our Father and God,

| Then thanks for thy present !-- none sweeter or Who sent us from heaven the maize!

better E'er smoked from an oven or circled a platter ! Fairer hands never wrought at a pastry more fine,

Brighter cycs never watched o'er its baking, than THE POTATO.

'thinc ! I's a careless potato, and care not a pin

And the prayer, which my mouth is too full to How into existence I came;

express, If they planted me drill-wise, or dibbled me in,

Swells my heart that thy shadow may never be less,

That the days of thy lot may be lengthened below, To me 't is exactly the same. Tlie bean and the pea may more loftily tower,

And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine But I care not a button for them ;

grow, Defiance I nod with my beautiful flower

And thy life be as sweet, and its last sunset sky When the earth is hoed up to my stem.

Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin-pie!

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

moon,

WILLIAM W. FOSDICK.

THOMAS MOORE.

kle

THE PUMPKIN.

HYMN TO THE FLOWERS. , Ox the banks of the Xenil the dark Spanish maiden | DAY-STARS ! that one your frownless eyes to twin

Comes up with the fruit of the tangled vine ladlen;
And the Creole of Cuba laughs out to behold | From rainbow galaxies of earth's creation,
Through orange-leaves shining the broad spheres And dew-drops on her lonely altars sprinkle
of gold;

As a libation.
Yet with dearerslelight from his home in the North,
On the fields of his harvest the Yankce looks forth, Ye matin worshippers ! who bending lowly
Where crook-necks are coiling and yellow fruit Before the uprisen sun, God's lidless eye,
shines,

Throw from your chalices a sweet and holy And the sun of September melts down on his vincs. /

Incense on high.

ve bright mosaics ! that with storied beauty,

The floor of Nature's temple tessellate, What numerous emblems of instructive duty

Your forms create !

| Posthumous glories ! angel-like collection !

Upraised from seed or bulb interred in earth, Yo are to me a type of resurrection

And second birth.

HORACE SMITH

'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that Were I in churchless solitudes remaining, swingeth

Far from all voice of teachers and divines, And tolls its perfume on the passing air, My soul would find, in flowers of God's ordaining, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth

Priests, sermons, shrines !
A call to prayer.
Not to the domes where crumblingarch and column
Attest the feebleness of mortal hand,

FLOWERS.
But to that fane, most catholic and solemn,
Which God hath planned ;

I will not have the mad Clytie,

Whose head is turned by the sun ; To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder,

The tulip is a courtly quean, Whosc quenchless lamps the sun and moon

Whom, therefore, I will shun; supply ;

The cowslip is a country wench,
Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder,

The violet is a nun; —
Its dome the sky.

But I will woo the dainty rose,
There, as in solitude and shad: I wander

The queen of every one. Through the green aisles, or stretched upon the

The pea is but a wanton witch, sod,

In too much haste to wed,
Awed by the silence, reverently ponder

And clasps her rings on every hand;
The ways of God,

The wolfsbanc I should dread ;
Your voiceless lips, O flowers ! are living preach-

Nor will I dreary rosemarye, ers,

That always mourns the dead ; Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book,

But I will woo the dainty rose,
Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers

With her cheeks of tender red.
From loneliest nook.

The lily is all in white, like a saint,
Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendor

And so is no mate for me ; “Weep without woe, and blush without a And the daisy's cheek is tipped with a blush, crime,”

She is of such low degree; 0, may I deeply learn, and ne'er surrender

Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves, Your loro sublime !

And the broom's betrothed to the bee ;

But I will plight with the dainty rose, “Thou wert not, Solomon, in all thy glory,

For fairest of all is she.
Arrayed,” the lilies cry, "in robes like ours !
How vain your grandeur ! ah, how transitory

Are human flowers !".
In the sweet-scented pictures, heavenly artist !

THE ROSE.
With which thon paintest Nature's wide-spread

FROM "HASSAN BEX KHALED." What a delightful lesson thou impartest

“Then took the generous host Of love to all !

| A basket filled with roses. Every guest Not useless are ye, flowers ! though made for Cried, "Give me roses !' and he thus addressed pleasure ;

His words to all : “He who exalts them most Blooming o'cr field and wave, by day and night,

In song, he only shall the roses wear.' From every source your sanction bids me treasure

Then sang a guest : The rose's cheeks are fair; Harmless delight.

It crowns the purple bowl, and no one knows

If the rose colors it, or it the rose.' Ephemeral sages ! what instructors hoary And sang another : ‘Crimson is its huc,

For such a world of thought could furnish scope? And on its breast the morning's crystal dew Each fading calyx a momento mori,

Is changed to rubics.' Then a third replied : Yct fount of liope.

It blushes in the sun's cnamored sight,

THOMAS HOOD.

hall,

BAYARD TAYLOR.

As a young virgin on her wedding night, l 'T IS THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER.
When from her face the bridegroom lifts the veil.'
When all had sung their songs, I, Hassan, tried.

'T is the last rose of summer, · *The rose,' I sang, ‘is either red or pale,

Left blooming alone; Like maidens whom the flame of passion burns,

All her lovely companions And love or jealousy controls, by turns.

Are faded and gone; Its buds are lips preparing for a kiss ;

No flower of her kindred, Its open flowers are like the blush of bliss

No rosebud, is nigh On lovers' cheeks; the thorns its armor are,

To reflect back her blushes,
And in its centre shines a golden star,

Or give sigh for sigh !
As on a favorite's chcek a sequin glows; -
And thus the garden's favorite is the rose.'

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one! “The master from his open basket shook

To pine on the stem ; The roses on my head."

Since the lovely are sleeping,

Go, sleep thou with them;
Thus kindly I scatter

Thy leaves o'er the bed

Where thy mates of the garden
THE MOSS ROSE.

Lie sccntless and dead.
[Translation.]

So soon may I follow,
The angel of the flowers, one day,

When friendships decay,
Beneath a rose-tree sleeping lay, -

And from love's shining circle
That spirit to whose charge 't is given

The gems drop away!
To bathe young buds in dews of heaven,

When true hearts lie withered,
Awaking from his light repose,

And fond ones are flown,
The angel whispered to the rose :

0, who would inhabit
“O fondest object of my care,

This bleak world alone ? Still fairest found, where all are fair ;

THOMAS MOORE ("Irish Melodies "). For the sweet shade thou giv'st to me Ask what thou wilt, 't is granted thee." “Then," said the rose, with deepened glow, “On me another grace bestow."

TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. The spirit paused, in silent thought, — What grace was there that flower had not ? Tuou blossom, bright with autumn dew, "T was but a moment, – o'er the rose

And colored with the heaven's own blue, A veil of moss the angel throws,

That openest when the quiet light And, robed in nature's simplest weed,

Succeeds the keen and frosty night ; Could there a flower that rose exceed ?

KRUMMACHER. Thou comest not when violets lean

O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen,
Or columbines, in purple dressed,

Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest.
THE ROSE.

Thou waitest late, and com'st alone,
FROM "THE LADY OF THE LAKE."

When woods are bare and birds are flown, “TAE rose is fairest when 't is budding new,

And frosts and shortening days portend And hope is brightest when it dawns from The aged Year is near his end.

fears ; The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye

And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. Look through its fringes to the sky, . O wilding rose, whom fancy this endears,

Blue -- blue -- as if that sky let fall
I bid your blossoms in my bonnet wave,

A flower from its cerulean wall.
Emblem of hope and love through future years ! "
Thus spoke young Norman, heir of Arman I would that thus, when I shall see
dave,

The hour of death draw near to me, What time the sun arose on Vennachar's broad Hope, blossoming within my heart, wave.

May look to heaven as I depart.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.