Show thoughts in autumn fields perhaps the herb everlasting the fragrant immortelle of our autumn fields has the most suggestive odor to me of all those that set roe me dreaming I 1 can hardly describe the strange thoughts and emotions which come to mo me as aa I 1 I 1 inhale the aroma of its pale dry rustling flowers A something it has ot of sepulchral as if it had been brought from the core of somo some great pyramid where it had lain on the breast of a pharaoh something too of immortality in ue Q sad faint sweetness lingering so BO loni long la its lifeless petals yet this does not tell why it fills my eyes with tears and carries me in blissful thought to the bariks banks of As asphodel that border the river of life oliver wendell holmes |