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AUTUMN'S SPLENDOURS by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB

First Line: DON'T MISS THE AUTUMN'S SPLENDOURS'
Last Line: OF HOPES THAT SUMMER SOLD.
Subject(s): AUTUMN; DEATH; SEASONS; FALL; DEAD, THE;
"Don't miss the autumn's splendours,"
In tube and train we're told;
Out walkers and week-enders,
Campaigners of both genders
To wood and weald and wold,
Where leaves are lavish spenders
And prodigal of gold!

But toes that toast on fenders
Are not to be cajoled;
Home keepers and hearth tenders
Will make no more surrenders
To wet and mud and cold;
Nor can dead leaves be menders
Of hopes that summer sold.



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