HAPPY SUNDAY AND A HAPPY 1ST DAY OF OCTOBER

 

 October is the treasurer of the year,

And all the months play bounty to her store.

The fields and orchards still their tribute bear,

And fill her brimming coffers more and more.

But she, with youthful lavishness,

Spends all her wealth in a gaudy dress

And decks herself in garments bold

of scarlet, purple, red and gold.

October

by

~Paul Laurence Dunbar~

Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War,  Mr. Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper and served as president of his high school's literary society.  You can read more if you click on his name underneath his poem.