Quote of the Day (Thomas Hood, on ‘Autumn in the Misty Morn’)

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn

Stand shadowless like silence, listening

To silence, for no lonely bird would sing

Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,

Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn." — Thomas Hood (1799-1845), “Autumn,” from The Poetical Works Of Thomas Hood (1861)

I took the accompanying photo last fall at Nyack Beach State Park, in Rockland County, NY.