ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS 7
Summer is Ending
THE feathers of the willow
Are half of them grown yellow
Above the swelling stream ;
And ragged are the bushes,
And rusty now the rushes,
And wild the clouded gleam.
And thistle now is older,
His stalks begin to moulder,
ills head is white as snow ;
The branches all are barer,
The linnet's song is rarer,
The robin pipeth low.
Richard Watson Dixon
St Anthony to the Fishes
ST ANTHONY at church
Was left in the lurch,
So he went to the ditches
And preached to the fishes.
Sharp-snouted pikes,
Who keep fighting like tikes,
Now swam up harmonious
To hear St Antonius.
Good eels and sturgeon
Which aldermen gorge on,
Went out of their way
To hear preaching that day.
Fish great and fish small,
Lords, lackeys, and all,
Each looked at the preacher
Like a reasonable creature.
The sermon now ended,
Each turned and descended ;
The pikes went on stealing,
The eels went on eeling ;
Much delighted were they,
But preferred the old way.
Author unknown
The Garment of His Country
TF I thought there was a stain upon the remotest hem of tfee garment
JL of my country, I would devote my utmost labour to wipe it off.
Daniel Webster