Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Two Autumn Days




All day in gusty showers, I saw the leaves
Swept eddying downward to the rain-soaked sod;
I saw upon the uplands tented sheaves,
And, by the roadside, wind-tossed golden rod.

BIDE A WEE, AND OTHER POEMS, By Mary F. MacColl,

Toronto: Rose Publishing Company, Hunter,
Rose and Co., Printers and Binders,
Wellington Street, 1882

Lydia and Andrew Thompson Collection