Sarah Orne Jewett’s Late Summer Reflection: Autumn’s First Stealing Flight
by Sarah Orne Jewett
This was one of those perfect New England days
in late summer
where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,
like a spy,
through the ripening country-side, and,
with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat,
puts her cool cloak of bracing air
about leaf
and flower
and human shoulders.
Today's Garden words were featured on the podcast:
Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all.
Frances Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947), who served as the First Lady of the United States and the wife of Grover Cleveland.