Season's End
This is the end of the Summer.
This is the end of all.
The sap is running back into earth
And the red leaves shudder and fall.
If I could shake myself down
From the stem that has ceased to flow,
Would there be a cool dark earth to close
Round the things I have come to know?
~~
Raymond Holden (1894-1972)
from Granite and Alabaster, 1922
[Poem is in the public domain in the United States]
Raymond Holden biography
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