<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383948" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Autumn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go, sit upon the lofty hill,<br> And turn your eyes around,<br>Where waving woods and waters wild<br> Do hymn an autumn sound.<br>The summer sun is faint on them --<br> The summer flowers depart --<br>Sit still -- as all transform'd to stone,<br> Except your musing heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How there you sat in summer-time,<br> May yet be in your mind;<br>And how you heard the green woods sing<br> Beneath the freshening wind.<br>Though the same wind now blows around,<br> You would its blast recall;<br>For every breath that stirs the trees,<br> Doth cause a leaf to fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth<br> That flesh and dust impart:<br>We cannot bear its visitings,<br> When change is on the heart.<br>Gay words and jests may make us smile,<br> When Sorrow is asleep;<br>But other things must make us smile,<br> When Sorrow bids us weep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dearest hands that clasp our hands, --<br> Their presence may be o'er;<br>The dearest voice that meets our ear,<br> That tone may come no more!<br>Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,<br> Which once refresh'd our mind,<br>Shall come -- as, on those sighing woods,<br> The chilling autumn wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear not the wind -- view not the woods;<br> Look out o'er vale and hill-<br>In spring, the sky encircled them --<br> The sky is round them still.<br>Come autumn's scathe -- come winter's cold --<br> Come change -- and human fate!<br>Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,<br> Can ne'er be desolate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383948" data-title="The Autumn de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them -- The summer flowers depart -- Sit still -- as all transform'd to stone, Except your musing he..."></div> </div> </div>

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