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FADING AUTUMN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Th' autumnal glories all have passed away!
Last Line: We'll cease to sigh for summer's living green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs.


TH' autumnal glories all have passed away!
The forest-leaves no more in hectic red
Give glowing tokens of their brief decay,
But scattered lie, or rustle at the tread,
Like whispered warnings from the mouldering dead;
The naked trees stretch out their arms all day,
And each bald hill-top lifts its reverend head
As if for some new covering to pray.
Come, WINTER, then, and spread thy robe of white
Above the desolation of this scene;
And when the sun with gems shall make it bright,
Or, when its snowy folds by midnight's queen
Are silvered o'er with a serener light,
We'll cease to sigh for summer's living green.





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