BIRDS AND NATURE. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 

 VOL. VIII. SEPTEMBER, 1900. No. 2 



SEPTEMBER. 



The golden-rod is yellow ; 



The corn is turning brown ; 

 The trees in apple orchards 



With fruit are bending down. 



The gentian's bluest fringes 



Are curling in the sun ; 

 In dusty pods the milkweed 



Its hidden silk has spun. 



The sedges flaunt their harvest, 



In every meadow nook ; 

 And asters by the brook-side 



Make asters in the brook. 



From dewy lanes at morning 

 The grapes' sweet odors rise ; 



At noon the roads all flutter 

 With yellow butterflies. 



By all these lovely tokens 



September days are here, 

 With summer's best of weather, 



And autumn's best of cheer. 



Helen Hunt Jackson. 



Copyright, 1900, by A. W. Mumford. 



