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/ Though Summer walks the world to-day / With corn-crowned hours for her guard, / Her thoughts have clad themselves in gray, / And wait in Autumn's weedy yard.
/ And where the larkspur and the phlox / Spread carpets wheresoe'er she pass, / She seems to stand with sombre locks / Bound bleak with fog-washed zinnias. --
/ Fall's terra-cotta-colored flowers, / Whose disks the trickling wet has tinged / With dingy lustre when the bower's / Thin, flame-flecked leaves the frost has singed;
/ Or with slow feet, 'mid gaunt gold blooms / Of marigolds her fingers twist, / She seems to pass with Fall's perfumes, / And dreams of sullen rain and mist.