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In the autumn days, the days of parting, / Days that in a golden silence fall, / When the air is quick with bird-wings starting, / And the asters darken by the wall;
Strong and sweet the wine of heaven is flowing, / Bees and sun and sleep and golden dyes; / Long forgot is budding-time and blowing, / Sunk in honeyed sleep the garden lies.
Spring and storm and summer midnight madness / Dream within the grape but never wake; / Bees and sun and sweetness, -- oh, and sadness! / Sun and sweet that reach the heart -- and break.
Ah, the pain at heart forever starting, / Ah, the cup untasted that we spilled / In the autumn days, the days of parting! / Would our shades could drink it, and be stilled.