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Ode To Autumn · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Ode to Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close
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  Speaker 1: bosom friend of the maturing sun, conspiring with him how
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  Speaker 1: to load and bless with fruit the vines that round
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  Speaker 1: the thatch eaves run, to bend with apples the mossed
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  Speaker 1: cottage trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core,
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  Speaker 1: to swell the gourd and plump the hazel shells with
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  Speaker 1: a sweet kernel, to set budding more and still more
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  Speaker 1: later flowers for the bees, until they think warm days
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  Speaker 1: will never cease, for summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
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  Speaker 1: Who has not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: whoever seeks abroad may find thee sitting careless on a
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  Speaker 1: granary floor, thy hair soft lifted by the winnowing wind,
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  Speaker 1: or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep, drowsed with the
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  Speaker 1: fume of poppies, while thy hook spares the next swath
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  Speaker 1: and all its twined flowers. And sometimes, like a gleaner,
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  Speaker 1: thou dost keep steady thy laden head across a brook. Or,
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  Speaker 1: by a cider-press, with patient look, thou watchest the last oozings,
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  Speaker 1: hours by hours. Where are the songs of spring? Ay,
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  Speaker 1: where are they? Think not of them. Thou hast thy
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  Speaker 1: music too. While buried clouds bloom the soft-dying day, and
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  Speaker 1: touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue. Then, in a wailful choir,
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  Speaker 1: the small gnats mourn among the river willows, borne aloft
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  Speaker 1: or sinking as the light wind lives or dies. And
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  Speaker 1: full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly hills. Hedge crickets sing,
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  Speaker 1: and now, with treble soft, the red-breast whistles from a
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  Speaker 1: garden croft, and gathering swallows twitter in the sky.