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Blood-coloured oaks, that stand against a sky of gold and brass; / Gaunt slopes, on which the bleak leaves glow of brier and sassafras, / And broom-sedge strips of smoky pink and pearl-gray clumps of grass, / In which, beneath the ragged sky, the rain-pools gleam like glass.
From West to East, from wood to wood, along the forest-side, / The winds, -- the sowers of the LORD, -- with thunderous footsteps stride; / Their stormy hands rain acorns down; and mad leaves, wildly dyed, / Like tatters of their rushing cloaks, stream round them far and wide.