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First Line: A few more days in this unkind july
Last Line: But you -- but you will then be far away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): At The Season's End
Subject(s): July; Kisses; Moon; Thames (river)


A FEW more days in this unkind July,
This moon of stormy countenance drear and wan,
And you will have departed to put on
The moors and mountains as a robe laid by,
And brought forth dipped in nature's Tyrian dye.
For me, here lingering where your light hath shone,
A glamour will have passed, a glory gone;
A paler earth will wear a greyer sky.

Yet none the less this City as of old
Shall throb with feverous heart-beats day by day:
And tower and spire shall catch the dear last ray
Of suns that bid adieu with kiss of gold:
Thames shall roll on, as long ago he rolled:
But you -- but you will then be far away.





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