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This poem was first published in 1911, in Poems in Wiltshire, but also appeared in Selected Poems (1925). It was originally called Sonnet in Autumn, 1910, but the date was dropped when it was republished.
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Hark! through the tree-tops comes a rustling sound
That sets my strained and anxious heart athrill
With its intensity, and louder still,
Till thud! upon the bosom of the ground;
Sudden I spring, and cast an eye around,
And overlook the margin of the hill,
And through the inner shades and glooms that fill
The hollow valley to the deep profound.
Nothing! Far off the languid shepherd wends
To summon up his flocks, the labouring swain
Toils in the furrow and the shadows stand.
What, then? A chestnut fell; the fall portends
Summer's o'er-hasty death, September's wane,
And Winter, waiting to possess the land.
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