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Autumn Days

Improvement Era, vol. 2, no. 2, December 1898, p. 118

Eckert, Nina Winslow

118 IMPROVEMENT- ERA.

Dreary winds, oh dreary winds, Haste away Over hill and dreamy dell, Brown and gray; Tell the flowers on your way, Tell the blasts that 'round you stray, Of the coming winter days Now so near.

Playful little mountain streams. Swiftly run With a message to the sea. Where the sun Soon will smile so coldly down, On old Winter's chilly frown. While he sits in snowy gown On his throne.

Little stream, oh little stream. As you go. Tell the fish along your way. So they'll know That the winter-time is near. Then they all will disappear. For old Winter's face they fear, That we know.

But we love you. Autumn days. For you seem To our weary laden hearts, A grateful dream; Treading 'neath your sky of gray. We forget, the while we stray. Welcome, welcome autumn days. Once again. Nina Winslow Eckart. Salt Lake City, Nov. 1898.