Mother Autumn is Coming Down by the golden grasses where the cottonwood trees grow tall and strong, the water on the pond is rippling. Brother Wind is breezing through the forest village. He dances with the red and golden leaf fairies clustered on the treetops, and by the hollow tree roots. ‘Autumn is coming, Autumn is coming,’ their fairy song travels in the wind. Little green Mossy Boy hears their song from his home in the gnarled roots of Grandfather Tree. He watches and listens. Mossy…
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