VIIIARCTURUSINAUTUMN
Arcturus in Autumn
When,in the gold October dusk, I saw you near to setting,Arcturus, bringer of spring,Lord of the summer nights, leaving us now in autumn,Having no pity on our withering;Oh then I knew at last that my own autumn was upon me,I felt it in my blood,Restless as dwindling streams that still rememberThe music of their flood.There in the thickening dark a wind-bent tree above meLoosed its last leaves in flight—I saw you sink and vanish, pitiless Arcturus,You will not stay to share our lengthening night.
When,in the gold October dusk, I saw you near to setting,Arcturus, bringer of spring,Lord of the summer nights, leaving us now in autumn,Having no pity on our withering;Oh then I knew at last that my own autumn was upon me,I felt it in my blood,Restless as dwindling streams that still rememberThe music of their flood.There in the thickening dark a wind-bent tree above meLoosed its last leaves in flight—I saw you sink and vanish, pitiless Arcturus,You will not stay to share our lengthening night.
When,in the gold October dusk, I saw you near to setting,Arcturus, bringer of spring,Lord of the summer nights, leaving us now in autumn,Having no pity on our withering;
When,in the gold October dusk, I saw you near to setting,
Arcturus, bringer of spring,
Lord of the summer nights, leaving us now in autumn,
Having no pity on our withering;
Oh then I knew at last that my own autumn was upon me,I felt it in my blood,Restless as dwindling streams that still rememberThe music of their flood.
Oh then I knew at last that my own autumn was upon me,
I felt it in my blood,
Restless as dwindling streams that still remember
The music of their flood.
There in the thickening dark a wind-bent tree above meLoosed its last leaves in flight—I saw you sink and vanish, pitiless Arcturus,You will not stay to share our lengthening night.
There in the thickening dark a wind-bent tree above me
Loosed its last leaves in flight—
I saw you sink and vanish, pitiless Arcturus,
You will not stay to share our lengthening night.