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WELLESLEY IN AUTUMN, by                    
First Line: In yellow and in saffron it is dressed
Last Line: Is snow at birth.
Subject(s): Alumni; Wellesley College


IN yellow and in saffron it is dressed,
Changing by imperceptible degrees
To tawny red and russet in the trees,
And brown of fallen leaves upon the breast
Of all the earth.

A trembling wind careens across the grass,
Chasing the dead leaves here and there in glee;
Or else, in empty, whirling columns free,
Tossing them in one mad, round, dancing mass
With savage mirth.

The twilight breathes a silent, waiting drowse;
A dead leaf curves down gently here and there
In the clear coolness of the evening air,
From the great oaks, with massive, up-flung boughs
And mighty girth.

Each night, tho' winter has not yet begun,
Drives the sharp frost still farther in the ground;
The grass with thicker white each morn is found,
And this soft covering, melting in the sun,
Is snow at birth.





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