Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMN DANCE, by WILLIAM HAROLD MCCREARY


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AUTUMN DANCE, by                    
First Line: Now out of heat and thunder
Last Line: The burnished wing, how brief!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


Now out of heat and thunder
New orders come to pass:
Dead leaves above, and under,
Dead crickets in the grass.

The grackle wheel and cluster
Where once the red-bud burned,
Telling in noisy clatter
How little we have learned

Of days that thrive and vanish,
Of loves that wax and wane,
Of fears that strive to banish
The frail hopes that remain.

Dance lovely lady; measure
With fleeting step the time;
Too soon an end of pleasure, --
Hushed all too soon the rhyme.

Dance to the changing magic
of bird and sky and leaf;
The faltering foot, how tragic;
The burnished wing, how brief!





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