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I. The rainy smell of a ferny dell, / Whose shadow no sunray flaws, / When Autumn sits in the wayside weeds / Telling her beads / Of haws.
II. The phantom mist, that is moonbeam-kissed, / On hills where the trees are thinned, / When Autumn leans at the oak-root's scarp, / Playing a harp / Of wind.
III. The crickets' chirr 'neath brier and burr, / By leaf-strewn pools and streams, / When Autumn stands 'mid the dropping nuts, / With the book, she shuts, / Of dreams.
IV. The gray "alas" of the days that pass, / And the hope that says "adieu," / A parting sorrow, a shriveled flower, / And one ghost's hour / With you.