October's Bright Blue Weather & More

Dear Members, Alumni, & Friends of the James Scholar Advisory & Leadership Team:

This special edition of Quotemail celebrates the beautiful October weather we’ve been enjoying lately, all the exciting discoveries from NASA space probes thus far this year, and the great American pastime of baseball, which is now entering the home stretch of postseason play leading up to the World Series! J

“October's Bright Blue Weather”

By Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

O suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather!

When loud the bumble-bee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And Golden-Rod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant.

When Gentians roll their fringes tight
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning.

When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining.

When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing.

When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting.

When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
October's bright blue weather.

O suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together;
Love loveth best of all the year
October's bright blue weather!

“Wanderers”

By Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

Wide are the meadows of night,
And daisies are shining there,
Tossing their lovely dews,
Lustrous and fair;

And through these sweet fields go,
Wanderers amid the stars --
Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune,
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars.

‘Tired in their silver, they move,
And circling, whisper and say,
“Fair are the blossoming meads of delight
Through which we stray.”

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)

By Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer

(Editor’s Note: A “sou” [a loan word from French] was an early 20^th-century nickname for a penny.)

1. Katie Casey was baseball mad,

Had the fever and had it bad.

Just to root for the home town crew,

Every sou Katie blew.

On a Saturday her young beau

Called to see if she'd like to go

To see a show, but Miss Kate said "No,

I'll tell you what you can do:"

Chorus:

Take me out to the ball game,

Take me out with the crowd;

Just buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,

I don't care if I never get back.

Let me root, root, root for the home team,

If they don't win, it's a shame.

For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,

At the old ball game.

2. Katie Casey saw all the games,

Knew the players by their first names.

Told the umpire he was wrong,

All along, good and strong.

When the score was just two to two,

Katie Casey knew what to do,

Just to cheer up the boys she knew,

She made the gang sing this song:

(Chorus)

GO CUBS! :)

Rob