Can anybody help me?

[KelseyPotter]

I'm running out of options, so I'll try here.

My mother and I have been looking for a poem for the last three years, and we can't find it. I've never seen this poem, and the only time my mother ever heard it was in kindergarten in the mid-'60s, if that helps date the poem.

She thinks it's called "September Gold", but it's not the Sheila Badham poem of that name. It starts off "Gold the leaves and gold the grain", I think--I know the first three words are "Gold the leaves".

So...has anybody ever heard of it, and if so, how does it go and who wrote it?

[wrestlingtaker]

I've never heard it.Are you sure it's a poem?

[deflux]

hmm are those the only words you know?

[KelseyPotter]

Unfortunately, yes, they are, unless my mother remembers more.

It's possible that my mother's kindergarten teacher made them up, but unfortunately we can't ask her--I think she died some years ago. It was in Kearney, New Jersey, in 1964, if that helps...

[ShoutGrace]

Could this be it? The final stanza has what you've said you're looking for.


Gold


When life wakened in the Spring
All the world was gold and green!
Sunlight lay on everything,
Sailing cloud and soaring wing,
Emerald banks where snow had been,
Drifts of daffodils between.

When Life's pulse beat strong and high
Shone the world in gold and blue!
Canopied with turquoise sky
Summer passed superbly by,
Bluest midnight cupped the dew
Golden morn might sparkle through!

Now that life would rest again
Soft she lies in gold and brown,
Brown the fields and gold the grain,
Brown the little pools of rain,
Gold the leaves that falter down
To brown pavements in the town.

--- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

[KelseyPotter]

That might well be it. I'll ask my mother when she wakes up...thanks!