Ala Gypsy: Autumn is coming......

All over blog land everyone is posting pictures and words and cries of joy........Spring is coming.........but not here.....not in South Africa.....

Just for balance I felt I had to post something about autumn ..........that is coming........yes it`s coming....I can feel it.......sigh......

Autumn
THE autumn comes, a maiden fair

In slenderness and grace,

With nodding rice-stems in her hair

And lilies in her face.

In flowers of grasses she is clad;

And as she moves along,

Birds greet her with their cooing glad

Like bracelets' tinkling song.

A diadem adorns the night

Of multitudinous stars;

Her silken robe is white moonlight,

Set free from cloudy bars;

And on her face (the radiant moon)

Bewitching smiles are shown:

She seems a slender maid, who soon

Will be a woman grown.

Over the rice-fields, laden plants

Are shivering to the breeze;

While in his brisk caresses dance

The blossomed-burdened trees;

He ruffles every lily-pond

Where blossoms kiss and part,

And stirs with lover's fancies fond

The young man's eager heart.

This English translation of "Autumn" was composed by Arthur W. Ryder (1877-1938