LETTER IN SOLITUDE
Here are autumn certainties:
I will love you and the trees
Go on yellowing and the sun
Stand and pour its radiance down.
I will love you and the trees
Go on yellowing and the sun
Stand and pour its radiance down.
Count the seasonal certainties:
I will love you and the trees
Color like a carnival,
Color and refuse to fall,
To show a new aspect of trees
More nearly like themselves than these.
I will love you and the trees
Color like a carnival,
Color and refuse to fall,
To show a new aspect of trees
More nearly like themselves than these.
I will love you as I have said:
After all the leaves are shed,
And the sky is fastened down,
And the valley depth is brown,
And the ruts begin to freeze,
There are other certainties.
After all the leaves are shed,
And the sky is fastened down,
And the valley depth is brown,
And the ruts begin to freeze,
There are other certainties.
Surely Tove you, but with none
Of that radiant tint of sun;
As if a cloud had curled across
The sun, and clung like lichened moss;
Of that radiant tint of sun;
As if a cloud had curled across
The sun, and clung like lichened moss;
Love you surely, but in a prone
Dogged way, more like a stone;
Dogged way, more like a stone;
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