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To Autumn

1795-1821


SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
         Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
         With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
         And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
         To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
         With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
         For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
         Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
         Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
         Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
         Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
         Steady thy laden head across a brook;
         Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
         Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
         Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
         And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
         Among the river sallows, borne aloft
         Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
         Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
         The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
         And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.


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