Purple and gold and crimson,
Lavender, rose, and green,
With luminous rays of opal
Trembling in between;
And gold dust sifted over all
From heaven’s curving screen.
“September” as it appears in Higginson’s The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).
“September” as it appears in Higginson’s Four-Leaf Clover (1901).