AUTUMNAL<br /><br /> Pale amber sunlight falls across<br /> The reddening October trees,<br /> That hardly sway before a breeze<br /> As soft as summer: summer's loss<br /> Seems little, dear! on days like these.<br /><br /> Let misty autumn be our part!<br /> The twilight of the year is sweet:<br /> Where shadow and the darkness meet<br /> Our love, a twilight of the heart<br /> Eludes a little time's deceit.<br /><br /> Are we not better and at home<br /> In dreamful Autumn, we who deem<br /> No harvest joy is worth a dream?<br /> A little while and night shall come,<br /> A little while, then, let us dream.<br /><br /> Beyond the pearled horizons lie<br /> Winter and night: awaiting these<br /> We garner this poor hour of ease,<br /> Until love turn from us and die<br /> Beneath the drear November trees.