October is age regal and triumphant,
the impartial judge on the bench,
the dowager duchess, wise, strong,
and in excellent health,
bearing easily the weight of velvet robes
which change with shifting light from deep blue
to plum color and crimson,
of heavy chains, heavy pins,
heavy rings all of gold,
all of the great keys which this month
is the keeper of the coin of the realm
secreted in the robe's capacious pockets."
Gladys Hasty Carroll
