LADY AUTUMN

Blow oh wind, oh autumn wind
and refresh the humid air
that summer hung with heavy shroud,
Oh come sweet autumn fair…
Come dancing down the hillsides,
dance among the trees,
come sing for us a harvest song,
across fields of bounty;
Bring Lady Autumn with you
with her gifts and her beauty…

And Lady Autumn fluttered, swirled and danced
across a windswept azure sky
rustling her colored skirts;
Oh see how her skirts fly…
Lady Autumn gowned in red and gold,
in mauve and shades of umber brown
came singing, dancing with the wind,
swirling her skirts around
through the forest, down the hills,
up and down the village streets…
then sashayed through the orchards,
and along the rivers, brooks and streams,
then Lady Autumn smiled and waved
and skipped across the lea.
Blow oh wind, oh autumn wind,
sing your songs merrily
and bring Lady Autumn with you
with her gifts and her beauty.

Annette Bromley