Excerpt from When Goldenrod Blooms, and Other Poems While a feeling that we're standing Within Heaven's ante-room, Abides, like a benediction, While the goldenrod's in bloom. Dreamily the cow - bells tingle At the closing of the day, And the music wafted to us Seems so far, so far, away! As if coming down dim, shaded ways From fields where children trod, Driving home the gentle cattle By hedgerows of goldenrod. In the hazy, shimmering sunshine Thoughts of Auld Lang Syne are writ, And loved voices are borne to us On the breezes, as they flit Through fair scenes of gold and crimson, O'er the drooping, feathery plume Of the queen of autumn flowers, Sceptered goldenrod a-bloom. Now is one with all the future And with days that have passed by, Things not seen speak through the things seen Of a glorious by and by. Unseen power draws the heart life Nearer to the loving God, When bright sunbeams are entangled In the smiling goldenrod. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.