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The dark green summer, with its massive hues, Fades into Autumn's tincture manifold; A gorgeous garniture of fire and gold The high slope of the ferny hill indues. The mists of morn in slumbering layers diffuse O'er glimmering rock, smooth lake, and spiked array Of hedgerow thorns a unity of gray. All things appear their tangible form to lose In ghostly vastness. But anon the gloom Melts, as the sun puts off his muddy veil. And now the birds their twittering songs resume, All summer silent in the leafy dale. In spring they piped of love on every tree, But now they sing the song of memory.
The dark green summer, with its massive hues, Fades into Autumn's tincture manifold; A gorgeous garniture of fire and gold The high slope of the ferny hill indues. The mists of morn in slumbering layers diffuse O'er glimmering rock, smooth lake, and spiked array Of hedgerow thorns a unity of gray. All things appear their tangible form to lose In ghostly vastness. But anon the gloom Melts, as the sun puts off his muddy veil. And now the birds their twittering songs resume, All summer silent in the leafy dale. In spring they piped of love on every tree, But now they sing the song of memory.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Hartley Coleridge
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 280; printed byline: Hartley Coleridge; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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