"Autumn leaves of red and gold Come whirling on the breezes bold, To keep the sleeping flowers Shelter’d from the cold. Like a blanket brown and warm They keep the tender plants from harm, When snow is softly falling Over field and farm." “Adventures in Music” by Thaddeus Giddings, Will Earhart, Ralph Baldwin, Earl Baker and Elbridge Newton. From the Music Education Series, Ginn and Company, 1931. Illustrations by Marguerite Davis and Maurice Day. This particular illustration is by Maurice Day.