SONG IN AUTUMN

SONG IN AUTUMN

The wind comes down before the creeping nightAnd you, my love, are hid within the greenLong grasses; and the dusk steals up betweenEach leaf, as through the shadow quick with frightThe startled hare leaps up and out of sight.The hedges whisper in their loaded boughsWhere warm birds slumber, pressing wing to wing,All pulsing faintly, like a muted stringAbove us where we weary of our vows—And hidden underground the soft moles drowse.

The wind comes down before the creeping nightAnd you, my love, are hid within the greenLong grasses; and the dusk steals up betweenEach leaf, as through the shadow quick with frightThe startled hare leaps up and out of sight.The hedges whisper in their loaded boughsWhere warm birds slumber, pressing wing to wing,All pulsing faintly, like a muted stringAbove us where we weary of our vows—And hidden underground the soft moles drowse.

The wind comes down before the creeping nightAnd you, my love, are hid within the greenLong grasses; and the dusk steals up betweenEach leaf, as through the shadow quick with frightThe startled hare leaps up and out of sight.

The wind comes down before the creeping night

And you, my love, are hid within the green

Long grasses; and the dusk steals up between

Each leaf, as through the shadow quick with fright

The startled hare leaps up and out of sight.

The hedges whisper in their loaded boughsWhere warm birds slumber, pressing wing to wing,All pulsing faintly, like a muted stringAbove us where we weary of our vows—And hidden underground the soft moles drowse.

The hedges whisper in their loaded boughs

Where warm birds slumber, pressing wing to wing,

All pulsing faintly, like a muted string

Above us where we weary of our vows—

And hidden underground the soft moles drowse.


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