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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. 
 Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night,
 The skies yet blushing with departing light,
  When read more 
 Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night,
 The skies yet blushing with departing light,
  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,
   And the low sun had lengthened every shade. 
 Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,
 And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,
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 Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,
 And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,
  And night by night the monitory blast
   Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd
    O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes,
     Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt
      Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods
       Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt. 
 Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
 Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
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 Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
 Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
   Say, is not absence death to those who love? 
 O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
 With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
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 O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
 With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
  Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest
   And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
    And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
     Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers. 
 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! 
 Yellow, mellow, ripened days,
 Sheltered in a golden coating;
  O'er the dreamy, listless haze,
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 Yellow, mellow, ripened days,
 Sheltered in a golden coating;
  O'er the dreamy, listless haze,
   White and dainty cloudlets floating;
    Winking at the blushing trees,
     And the sombre, furrowed fallow;
      Smiling at the airy ease,
       Of the southward flying swallow
        Sweet and smiling are thy ways,
         Beauteous, golden Autumn days. 
 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. 
 It was Autumn, and incessant
 Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
  And, like living coals, the read more 
 It was Autumn, and incessant
 Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
  And, like living coals, the apples
   Burned among the withering leaves.