‘Meeker morns’

At Equinox Mountain, Bennington County, Vermont

— Photo by Famartin

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.

The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.

— “Autumn,’’ by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Amherst, Mass.-based poet