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  	AUTUMN 

15	Written in childhood, in a maple grove 

  	    Quickly earth's jewels disappear;
  	      The turf, whereon I tread,
18	    Ere autumn blanch another year,
  	      May rest above my head. 

  	    Touched by the finger of decay
21	      Is every earthly love;
  	    For joy, to shun my weary way,
  	      Is registered above. 

24	    The languid brooklets yield their sighs,
  	      A requiem o'er the tomb
  	    Of sunny days and cloudless skies,
27	      Enhancing autumn's gloom. 
 
  Miscellaneous Writings --- Poems                                              
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 1	    The wild winds mutter, howl, and moan,
  	      To scare my woodland walk,
 3	    And frightened fancy flees, to roam
  	      Where ghosts and goblins stalk. 

  	    The cricket's sharp, discordant scream
 6	      Fills mortal sense with dread;
  	    More sorrowful it scarce could seem;
  	      It voices beauty fled. 

 9	    Yet here, upon this faded sod, — 
  	      O happy hours and fleet, — 
  	    When songsters' matin hymns to God
12	      Are poured in strains so sweet,

  	    My heart unbidden joins rehearse;
  	      I hope it's better made,
15	    When mingling with the universe,
  	      Beneath the maple's shade.