Then over field and hollow, grass and grain; the loud, crisp whiteness of the nearing rain.

October’s orchestra plays softly on the northern forest with its thousand strings.

Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was a Canadian writer, poet, and stage performer.  Her father was a Mohawk chief, and her mother was of English heritage.  Her stage name was taken from the Mohawk language, Tekahionwake.