...from the trumpet's mouth is peal'd The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. TDK melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying...

...the autumn presents, when, as one of our sweetest native poets has sung, u The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere." Every aspect, every sound of the dying year, is an emblem and a presage to man of the declining strength,...

...melan:holy catastrophe was mainly owing. — Eliza 7ook't Journal. DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. BY WC BRTAHT. The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked roods, And meadows brown and sear ; Ileap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead...

...the autumn presents, when, as one of our sweetest native poets has sung, " The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows hrown and sere." Every aspect, every sound of the dying year, is an emblem and a presage to man of...

...and melancholy catastrophe was mainly owing. — EliM Journal. DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. ВТ WC BRYANT. The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds aud naked »oods, And meadows brown and sear ; Henp'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves...

...are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And + meadows, brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, The withered leaves...the "'"eddying gust, And to the rabbit's tread. The robbin and the wren have flown, And from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow Through...

...William Cullen Bryant characterises November in the following lines : — " The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere." How different is all this in Florida, where, in November, the days are bright and sunny, cheerful and...

...had passed the age of seventy. He retained his powers and his activity till the close of his life. 1. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows, brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, The autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,...

...everlasting hills, A song of rapture pour'd. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1794-1878 The Death of the Flowers The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust,...

...moon! ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The long glories . . . long is the word. Why? The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Melancholy is good. Wailing winds. An intriguing word, melancholy. It comes from...