Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк)

Indian Summer

A soft veil dims the tender skies,
And half conceals from pensive eyes
The bronzing tokens of the fall;
A calmness broods upon the hills,
And summer’s parting dream distills
A charm of silence over all.

The stacks of corn, in brown array,
Stand waiting through the placid day,
Like tattered wigwams on the plain;
The tribes that find a shelter there
Are phantom peoples, forms of air,
And ghosts of vanished joy and pain.

At evening when the crimson crest
Of sunset passes down the West,
I hear the whispering host returning;
On far-off fields, by elm and oak,
I see the lights, I smell the smoke,--
The Camp-fires of the Past are burning.

1. War-Music
2. The Wind of Sorrow
3. Love in a Look
4. Nepenthe
5. The Ancestral Dwelling

Katharine Tynan (Кэтрин Тайнен) Indian Summer ("This is the sign!")

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