Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMN, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE


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First Line: A bowlegged peasant and his ox receding
Last Line: In the mist there are two gray shapes receding
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina


A bowlegged peasant and his ox receding
Through the mist slowly through the mist of autumn
Which hides the shabby and sordid villages

And out there as he goes the peasant is singing
A song of love and infidelity
About a ring and a heart which someone is breaking

Oh the autumn the autumn has been the death of summer
In the mist there are two gray shapes receding





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