Poem: “Indian Summer” by Henry Van Dyke

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Indian Summer

A silken curtain veils the skies,And half conceals from pensive eyes The bronzing tokens of the fall;A calmness broods upon the hills,And summer’s parting dream distils A charm of silence over all.

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

At evening when the crimson crestOf 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.

Tertius and Henry van Dyke.

November, 1903.

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