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AN AUTUMN WEDDING-SONG, by                    
First Line: Southward the swallow flies, south to the sunlands
Last Line: And it's sing for the gold of her wedding-morn!
Subject(s): Harvest; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SOUTHWARD the swallow flies, south to the sunlands;
The quail calls clear through the rustling corn;
Broad smiles the sun on the bountiful brown-lands,
Whence heavy with fruitage the harvest is borne.

The long lights fall on the mountains and valleys;
And forests, that springtime and summer have fled
With fast-flying feet through their green-vaulted alleys,
Fade into yellow and flame into red.

O south-speeding swallow, pause wing and stay with us;
Pipe merrily, quail, from the rustling corn;
O mountains and valleys, be glad with us, gay with us;
Shine brightly, O sun, for her wedding-morn.

Fair are the flowers of May-days and June-days, --
Dawn-dowered daughters, timid and tall;
Fair are the lilies of August's long noondays;
But the golden rare harvest is fairest of all.

Then it's oh for the gold of the meadow and woodland!
It's oh for the gold of the rustling corn!
And it's sing for the gold of the sun and the good-land!
And it's sing for the gold of her wedding-morn!





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