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 I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
 Stand shadowless like silence, listening
  To silence, for no read more 
 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;--
     Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright
      With tangled gossamer that fell by night,
       Pearling his coronet of golden corn. 
 What visionary tints the year puts on,
 When falling leaves falter through motionless air
  Or numbly cling read more 
 What visionary tints the year puts on,
 When falling leaves falter through motionless air
  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!
   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,
    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills
     The bowl between me and those distant hills,
      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair! 
 O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,
 When the frost is on the read more 
 O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,
 When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. 
 A breath, whence no man knows,
 Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;
  It comes, it grieves, it read more 
 A breath, whence no man knows,
 Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;
  It comes, it grieves, it goes.
   Once it rocked the summer rose. 
 Autumn
 Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
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 Autumn
 Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
   As the equinoctials blow. 
 The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year,
 Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown read more 
 The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year,
 Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. 
 Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,
 Sad thoughts and sunny weather;
  Ah me! this glory and this grief
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 Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,
 Sad thoughts and sunny weather;
  Ah me! this glory and this grief
   Agree not well together! 
 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
 Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
  Conspiring with him how to read more 
 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
 Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
  Conspiring with him how to load and bless
   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
    To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,
     And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core. 
 The mellow autumn came, and with it came
 The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.
  The corn read more 
 The mellow autumn came, and with it came
 The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.
  The corn is cut, the manor full of game;
   The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats
    In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim;
     Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats.
      An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants!
       And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.