Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG: AUTUMN, by GEORGE MEREDITH


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First Line: When nuts behind the hazel-leaf
Last Line: And flower of every harvest home.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


WHEN nuts behind the hazel-leaf
Are brown as the squirrel that hunts them free,
And the fields are rich with the sun-burnt sheaf,
'Mid the blue cornflower and the yellowing tree;
And the farmer glows and beams in his glee;

O then is the season to wed thee a bride!
Ere the garners are filled and the ale-cups foam;
For a smiling hostess is the pride
And flower of every Harvest Home.





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