Excerpt from Nature's Meditations: A Book of Verses The ripened grain has been gleaned, and everywhere we find Things that remind us of the coming autumn time] The days have grown shorter, and the nights seem long. And we listen in vain for the Nightingale's song; As the cause for these changes come suddenly to mind, We realize it is the dawn of another autumn time. Jack-frost has nipped the buds and pierced the chestnut bur, The hickory and the walnut have all been made to stir From their resting place, too high for boys to climb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.