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"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees." ~~Faith Baldwin
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"The air is as cool as an old coin teaspoon and a faint tang of blue woodsmoke spices the wind." ~~Gladys Taber
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"My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You are a pumpkin or you are not. I am."
~~Harrison Salisbury
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"We made a bonfire of pine branches and fallen leaves and stood around sniffing it with pleasure until there were only ashes."
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"Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard." ~~Walt Whitman
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"October gave a party, the leaves by hundreds came -- The chestnuts, oaks, and maples -- Their costumes all aflame. Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band, the guests were all aflutter, and danced off hand in hand." ~~after George Cooper
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"...And merry when the great winds sing, through Autumn's woodlands brown..."
~~William Hewitt
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"Summers loss seems little, dear, on days like these." ~~Ernest Dawson
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"There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood ~~ Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, with the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time." ~~Bliss Carman
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"There is something in October
sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
when from every hill of flame
She calls and calls
each vagabond by name."
~~Bliss Carman
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(Source of Victorian Graphic)
