When Acorns Fall
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
Track 1
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Gleam up the sky, just as the sun doth set,
And Fancy's fires should pale and pass away,
Thou with thy dawn delayest my decline.
When acorns fall and swallows troop for flight,
So, fair young life, new risen upon mine
And, in the deepening sundown of my day,
Just as it owns the edict of decay
Her brightening gaze, though day and dark have met,
Drops leaf on leaf till she be beggared quite;
And hope matured slow mellows to regret,
My menaced glory takes a glow from thine,
Prolongs the gloaming and retards the night.
And Autumn, pressed by Winter for his debt,
Should then the crescent moon's unselfish light
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