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tion of time, she is a most charming companion 

 for all. The infirmities of age have not '-.ome, 

 but she knows that they are near, and her sym- 

 pathies instinctively go out to those who are (as 

 she soon will be) bending under the burden of 

 years Her memory of youth is still strong, 

 and she turns to it, and to those in its enjoy 

 ment, with a remorseful tenderness, as the emi- 

 grant looks back to a loved familiar, but fading 

 shore. The fitful waywardness, the April skies 

 of youth, the intense feelings and passions of 

 midsummer life, are passing into the calm and 

 content of early autumn. She is, like the 

 season, in a border land between two dissimilar 

 states, and having some of the characteristics of 

 both. 



Flecks of gray in the "bonny brown hair" 

 may awaken regretful thoughts of the approach- 

 ing frostiness of age, just as in early September 

 there comes sighing through the trees a wind 



