The Reformed Quarterly Review (Volume 41) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... VI AUTUMN. BY PROF. SAMUEL VERNON RUBY. The pretty robe that Autumn wears Along the laughing rill, The pretty robe that Autumn wears Upon the sombre hill, Will be a picture sweet to see, As long as there is memory. How bright the dew is on the thorn I How red the leaves beneath How rosy is the coming morn Upon the blushing heath How like a scene upon the sky, Are yonder clouds, now floating by I How soft the noon--and afternoon, Of each and every day, When children crave the simple boon Of walking o'er the way, "Or down the glen, or by the church, Until they reach the fiery birch." The grass is brown beneath the tree, And brown around the bush; No more is heard the Summer bee, Or Summer singing thrush; Yet all the vale is green or gold, Or scarlet touched, or crimson stoled. I stand anear the river's flood, The village lie behind, --Behind the wood, with leaf and bud, As still as if 't were blind, Or waited for some gentle breeze, To stir, anon, its topmost trees. The water tinkles at my feet, It rises to a swell, It passes even swift and fleet--I hear the evening bell, As o'er the wood there comes its chime, A full and tender, mellow rhyme. I turn now back unto those years That did so gently glide; I turn now back unto those years, That with their silver tide, Did pass in song, in love, in praise, And think them like these Autumn days. Oh, yes I love thee, Autumn brown 1 And when the wind is free, I think I hear thy trailing gown In every forest tree; And painting, painting gold and green, Thou paint'st, indeed, the sweetest scene. Ub Sinus College, Pa. VII. NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. The Age And The Church. Being a Study of the Age, and of the Adaptation of the.Church to it Needs. By J. H. W. Stiickeaberg. D.L). Published by the Student Publishing Company, ...