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IN AUTUMN.
The mournful earth is fellow to my woe,The hills and valleys to my anthems sing,
That now no more the golden sunbeams flow,
But waning Autumn of the world is king.
The woods and gardens to my songs reply,
They feel the loss, which they in change sustain;
The fountains on me look with careful eye,
And fondly of the creeping cold complain:
The winged horses now have lost their powers,
The musing herds within the meadows stand,
The birds are hush'd amid' their naked bowers,
And insects in the cells themselves have plann'd;
All sight and sound is of a mournful cast,
And tell to man the golden prime is past.
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