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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EARLY JUNE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring's over, over. The gold meadows / tarnish
Last Line: Already the leaves falling, and the brave boughs grown leaner.
Subject(s): June; Summer
First Line: Spring's over, over. The gold meadows / tarnish
Last Line: Already the leaves falling, and the brave boughs grown leaner.
Subject(s): June; Summer
SPRING'S over, over. The gold meadows tarnish,
The gold dims, heavy-leaved hedges darken,
The primal light diminishes.
I look, look back, and hearken
Now but to faint and ever fainter echoes.
Summer lays siege, and Spring's brief fire finishes.
Never was such a glory as this Spring glory,
Never a cloudy navy of such brightness
Moving all day to nights serener.
But I, who shared that lightness,
Feel already the season's weight more sombre,
Already the leaves falling, and the brave boughs grown leaner.
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