Autumnal

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PALE amber sunlight falls across
.... The reddening October trees,
.... That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
.... Seems little, dear! on days like these!
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Let misty autumn be our part!
.... The twilight of the year is sweet:
.... Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
.... Eludes a little time's deceit.
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Are we not better and at home
.... In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
.... No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
.... A little while, then, let us dream.
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Beyond the pearled horizons lie
.... Winter and night: awaiting these
.... We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
.... Beneath the drear November trees.
............ Ernest Christopher Dowson