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As imperceptibly as Grief
The Summer lapsed away -
Too imperceptible at last
To feel like Perfidy -
A Quietness distilled -
As Twilight long begun -
Or Nature - spending
with Herself
Sequestered Afternoon -
Sobriety inhered
Though gaudy influence
The Maple lent unto
the Road
And graphic Consequence
Invested sombre place -
As suddenly be worn
By sober Individual
A Homogeneous Gown -
Departed was the Bird -
And scarcely had the
Hill
A flower to help His
straightened face
In stress of Burial -
The Winds came closer
up -
The Cricket spoke
so clear
Presumption was - His
Ancestors
Inherited the Floor -
The Dusk drew
earlier in -
The Morning foreign
shone -
The courteous - but
harrowing Grace
Of Guest who would be
gone -
And thus, without a
Wing
Or Service of a Keel -
Our Summer made Her
light Escape
Unto the Beautiful -
As Willing lid o'er
Weary Eye
The Evening on the Day
leans
Till of all our Nature's
House
Remains but Balcony
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