AFTERMATH 



over the season's 



raggedness and 



gives to November 



a day like this 



which, save for the 



swift twilight and late 



dawn, might be April. 



The lark notes are the 



music to the final scene of the masque of the 



Season of Blossoms. The Magician has given the 



landscape its last flower, which sometimes does not 



fade before he washes the colors from his palette 



with newly fallen snow." 



Flower Hat, still struggling with her hair, 

 stopped, and climbing a rail fence, looked wildly 

 about. 



" Last flower landscape ? Where ? Surely you 

 don't mean those little wispy bits of Goldenrod, 

 and I 'm positive that the frost of a week ago, 



