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First Line: Autumn is over the long leaves that love us
Last Line: With a kiss and a tear on thy on thy drooping brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell


Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,
And over the mice in the barely sheaves;
Yellow the leaves of rowan above us,
And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.
The hour of waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn and our sad souls now;
Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy on thy drooping brow.




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