Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER


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First Line: The dawn creeps laggard now into the wood
Last Line: Each morning, as she comes into the wood.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise


THE Dawn creeps laggard now into the wood;
For he she loved, her God with golden hair,
Summer, has slipped off to the south somewhere,
And all his birds have followed, like a flood.
In vain she asks the trees, "Why did he fly?"
In tattered cloaks close-folded they are dumb:
For Autumn, that brown gipsy child, has come,
And filled their hearts with piping wild and high.
He has sung Summer gone and Winter near:
And has consoled their grief with promises
Of coats well-lined with gold, so, though they freeze,
They will be safe from Winter, never fear.
This mocking song they have misunderstood:
But Dawn, in her grey lonely heart, knows all.
She marks how, from the stiff boughs, dead leaves fall
Each morning, as she comes into the wood.





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