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The Autumn

The Autumn

Can neer be desolate.
The dearest hands that clasp our hands, --
Where waving woods and waters wild
For every breath that stirs the trees,
That flesh and dust impart:
Look out oer vale and hill-
When Sorrow is asleep;
And turn yread.99csw•comour eyes around,
Except your musing heart.
Hear not the wind -- view not the woods;
Though the same wind now blows around,
The dearest voice that meets our ear,
May yet be in your mind;
When Sorrow bids us wread.99csw.comeep!
That tone may come no more!
The chilling autumn wind.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Autumn
Beneath the freshening wind.
Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,
The summer sun is fread.99csw.comaint on them --
Do hymn an autumn sound.
Their presence may be oer;
Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,
Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth
Gay words and jests may make us smile,
Doth cause a leaf to fall.
In spring, the sky enchttps://read.99csw•comircled them --
The sky is round them still.
You would its blast recall;
But other things must make us smile,
Come change -- and human fate!
Which once refreshd our mind,
We cannot bear its visitings,
And how you heard the green woods sinhttps://read.99csw•comg
Shall come -- as, on those sighing woods,
The summer flowers depart --
When change is on the heart.
How there you sat in summer-time,
Sit still -- as all transformd to stone,
Come autumns scathe -- come winters cold --
Go, sit upon the lofty hill,