Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMNAL LEAVES, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY


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AUTUMNAL LEAVES, by                    
First Line: No more ye sway and shimmer in the sky
Last Line: The efflorescence of the opening year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall


No more ye sway and shimmer in the sky,
In happy fellowship together bound,
But swirl and scatter o'er the alien ground,
Strange to each other in adversity.
Forgotten is the amorous melody
That, in the equinoctial roar, was drowned,
As up and down ye wander, sorrow-crowned,
Like Jephthah's daughter who must childless die.
Yet, as the stars unquenched, unflickering, burn
While daylight chases darkness round the sphere,
The germ of life in dissolution's urn
Heeds not the pressure of its swathings sere;
And ever, as aforetime, shall return
The efflorescence of the opening year.





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