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First Line: So now, then, summer's over - by degrees
Last Line: But wrinkles and red hair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Autumn; Netherlands; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


So now, then, Summer 's over -- by degrees.
Hark! 't is the wind in you red region grieves.
Who says the world grows better, growing old?
See! what poor trumpery on those pauper trees,
That cannot keep, for all their fine gold leaves,
Their last bird from the cold.

This is Dame Nature, puckered, pinched, and sour,
Of all the charms her poets praised, bereft,
Scowling and scolding (only hear her, there!)
Like that old spiteful Queen, in her last hour,
Whom Spenser, Shakespeare, sung to...nothing left
But wrinkles and red hair!





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