StoryTitle("caps", "Autumn Talk") ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage084", "
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Where does Summer leave off and Autumn begin?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How man know that it's autumn we're in?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One night while we slept, not one in the house", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Knew when autumn came in, as still as a mouse.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Autumn is here. What does she find?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fruits of the Summer, so generous and kind;", "") ?>
PagePoem(84, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The earth covered with carpets of many a hue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And flowers in waiting to welcome her, too.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wonder how many of you have thought,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the insects are buzzing and flitting about,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where they all live, and what they all do,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When \"Jack Frost\" comes with the sleet and snow?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From sunrise to sunset, from sunset till dawn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the tree-tops, and over the lawn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Autumn is whispering words of good cheer", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To her insect babies; they have nothing to fear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before Winter comes, with her loving call,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into her moss-lined cradle she'll have gathered them all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She'll tuck them up tight, like babies we know;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is quite like mamma to do just so.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mother Autumn will turn the bright summer light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into a soft, mellow one; just as mamma each night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When baby is tired, turns the light down,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing, \"Sleep, baby, sleep, the bright light is gone.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>