Shine On Harvest Moon

"Shine on, shine on, harvest moon,
Up in the sky..."

Haymaker's Moon
Will Moses

THE HARVEST MOON

It is the Harvest Moon!  On gilded vanes

And roofs of villages, on woodland crests

And their aerial neighborhoods of nest

Deserted, on the curtained window-panes

Of rooms were children sleep, on country lanes.

And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,

With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!

All things are symbols: the external shows

Of Nature have their image in the mind;

As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;

The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,

Only the empty nests are left behind,

And the piping of quail among the sheaves.

Husking Bee
Will Moses

"The Harvest Moon"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807-1882)

American poet and educator

"Haymaker's Moon"
"Husking Bee"
Will Moses
American artist and fourth generation
member of the renown Moses family