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PAVANE FOR OCTOBER, by                    
First Line: Tarry not to tell
Last Line: Now is time for sleeping.
Subject(s): October


Tarry not to tell
All the fruits that cumber,
Husk and rind and shell,
Acres without number,
Now is time for slumber.

Let the bough be shaken.
Let the cluster fall
And the best be taken
Till the pile is tall.
Still it is not all.

Those the cattle trample
Leave beneath the tree,
Amber-bruised, but ample
For the laggard bee,
Others such as he.

Tally not the sum.
Sharper air is reaping
All that lingers. Come,
Make an end of heaping.
Now is time for sleeping.





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