{"id":4475,"date":"2009-10-26T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/october\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:32:00","slug":"october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/october\/","title":{"rendered":"October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SuXB5avUVxI\/AAAAAAAAASo\/rx20lseuovE\/s1600-h\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396932920647898898\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SuXB5avUVxI\/AAAAAAAAASo\/rx20lseuovE\/s400\/images.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SuXBq5NwgqI\/AAAAAAAAASg\/3K3eqdoyYTo\/s1600-h\/images.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">To Autumn<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Conspiring with him how to load and bless <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">To bend with apples the moss&#8217;d cottage-trees, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">And still more, later flowers for the bees, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Until they think warm days will never cease, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">For summer has o&#8217;er-brimm&#8217;d their clammy cells.<\/p>\n<p>Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Or on a half-reap&#8217;d furrow sound asleep, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Steady thy laden head across a brook; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Or by a cider-press, with patient look, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.<\/p>\n<p>Where are the songs of Spring? 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