It is the aim of this lesson to help the pupils to appreciate imaginative descriptions of some natural phenomena. This lesson will be best appreciated if taken some day in autumn when the leaves are falling. If the pupils have recently noticed the wind rushing through the trees, scattering the many-coloured leaves and driving them before it along the ground, they will be in the best mood to enter into the spirit of the poem. What is the time of the year that the poem speaks about? The autumn. Select all the things that tell you this. The leaves have "dresses of red and gold"; "summer is gone"; "the days grow cold"; the leaves come "fluttering" down; the "fields" are "brown". What did the wind mean by "Come o'er the meadows with me, and play"? It meant that they should come down from the trees and be blown away by the wind across the fields. What does it mean by "Put on your dresses of red and gold"? Before they fall, the leaves have many beautiful colours. What was the colour of their dresses in summer? When do they begin to change colour very quickly? What leaves show the most beautiful colours? What different colours have you noticed that leaves have? When does the wind call? When it blows loudly or whistles. Do you know what the wind says when it calls? Why not? We do not understand the language that it speaks. How did the leaves show that they understood? They obeyed at once and came down from the trees. What is meant by "fluttering" down? They came down slowly, moving from side to side, and turning over and over as they fell. (This could be shown in the class-room quite easily.) Which line in the first stanza corresponds in meaning with the third line of the second? The second line. What makes the fields "brown"? It is the end of the summer, and the grass and the plants have dried up. What colours have the fields at other seasons of the year? Green in the spring, golden in the summer, white in the winter. What are "the soft little songs" of the leaves? The rustling sounds they make as they are blown about by the wind. Why do we not understand their songs? For the same reason that we do not understand the call of the wind--their language is not ours. "Winter had called them." What is the voice of winter? The cold winds that roar and whistle. What is meant by "content"? The leaves were quite glad to answer the call. Why were they content? The work that they had been doing all summer long was done; they were tired and sleepy and glad to go to bed.