Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PASSING OF AUTUMN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON


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First Line: The sky has donned a mourning veil
Last Line: For nature's glories never die!
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


THE sky has donned a mourning veil,
The trees a miserere wail,
A wintry wind is blowing chill
O'er barren dale and frosty hill;
While Autumn, at its icy breath,
Now prostrate lieth—still in death.
In death? Ah no, she sleeps to-night
In cerements of dazzling white.
She sleeps the dusky hours away,
And dreams that Spring is on the way;
That birds are circling in the air,
And breath of flowerets everywhere.
Then Nature waves a magic wand,
And Summer roses deck the land,
The sportive Southland zephyrs blow,
And butterflies flash to and fro.
Lo! Spring and Summer both have fled,
And Autumn, risen from the dead,
Appears in splendor, as of old,
In sunset hues of red and gold.
Her sleep is past, her dreams are o'er,
The sunshine floods her prison door;
Its lintels fringed with golden-rod,
While purple asters prank the sod.
As seasons pass breathe not a sigh,
For Nature's glories never die!





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