Helen Maria Hunt Jackson:
Born as Helen Fiske.
(Amherst, 18 October 1830 – San Francisco, 12 August 1885).
American writer and activist for the indigenous people of the United States. Jackson described the ill effects of policies towards Native Americans in A Century of Dishonor (1881). In her novel Ramona (1884), Jackson outlined the hard life of a girl of mixed Scottish-Indian origin in Southern California in the post-Mexican-American War period.
November woods are bare and still. November days are clear and bright. Each noon burns up the morning’s chill, the morning’s snow is gone by night. November woods are bare and still. November days are bright and good. Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill. Life’s night rests on feet which have long stood.
By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.
When the trees their summer splendor change to raiment red and gold. When the summer moon turns mellow, and the nights are getting cold. When the squirrels hide their acorns, the woodchucks disappear. Then we know that it is autumn, the loveliest season of the year.
