| Autumn Song
Violins complain Of autumn again, They sob and moan. And my heartstrings ache Like the song they make, A monotone.
Suffocating, drowned, And hollowly, sound The midnight chimes. Then the days return I knew, and I mourn For bygone times.
And I fall and drift With the winds that lift My heavy grief. Here and there they blow, And I rise and go Like a dead leaf.
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Autumn Song
With long sobs
the violin-throbs
of autumn wound
my heart with languorous
and monotonous
sound.
Choking and pale
When I mind the tale
the hours keep,
my memory strays
down other days
and I weep;
and I let me go
where ill winds blow
now here, now there,
harried and sped,
even as a dead
leaf, anywhere.
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