Autumn

I love you, autumn Welcome to my tropic paradise The rivers swollen bosom Bids you drink, and these blue skies Solacing my mind, Ask you now to dream, the earth Beckons you its grassy pillow For in our dream we never die And love and life return Like the eagle in the sky To mock the sun that cannot burn And over troubled mountains fly Holding the gleam of delight In the glassy eye By being fed at nature's plight Many names Demeter Starve us not again For want of growing grain or rain But brim us with your wheat Let the does come in And let their milk be white upon our teeth. For Persephone has come back Her pomegranate harvest Making glad the laden bee Hermes has closed Hades cavern Bringing us healing and joy O let children go reap the flowers The hearth is full of laughing And deities their bargain keep Love will sow and labor reaps Joy will sing And autumn brings The bubbling time of thanksgiving