The New Day: Sonnets By Thomas Gordon Hake: With a Portrait of the Author by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Edited, with a Preface, by W. Earl Hodgson |
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LXXXVIII.
[There summer has its setting like the sun]
There summer has its setting like the sun,Autumnal tints and azure skies contrasting;
The carnival of colours has begun,
Borne down unchanged through ages everlasting.
The forest leaves, pale, sallow, up to golden;
Empurpled, crimsoned, ripened unto red;
The festival as known to epochs olden,
Kept up till every bough its leaves has shed.
Then is the forest like a columned tomb,
A skeleton cathedral with its aisles,
Its archway stretched along the stately gloom;
No sound, no motion down the distant miles.
There Nature hides, with seeming ostentation,
Her worthless dead in their own desolation.
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