Autumn Fires

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a verse

called Autumn Fires that goes like this:

In the other gardens

And all up the vale,

From the autumn bonfires

See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over

And all the summer flowers,

The red fire blazes,

The gray smoke towers. ...

There's one more verse in which he glories 

over summer's end and autumn's beginning.

an autumn fireplace by Tracey 

at myhouseofgiggles.blogspot.com

The other night, the air smelled of wood  smoke

from fireplaces lit,

the moon was full and silver,

and the sounds of the high school marching band 

wafted across the breeze.

Very much a sign of "pleasant summer over."

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