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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567109" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to the end of Summer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Summer, adieu <br>Adieu gregarious season. <br>Goodbye, 'revoir, farewell. <br>Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze on <br>Forsaken beach and boarded-up hotel. <br>Now wild geese fly together in thin lines <br>And Tourist Homes take down their lettered signs. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It fades--this green this lavish interval <br>This time of flowers and fruits, <br>Of melon ripe along the orchard wall, <br>Of sun and sails and wrinkled linen suits; <br>Time when the world seems rather plus than minus <br>And pollen tickles the allergic sinus. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now fugitives to farm and shore and highland <br>Cancel their brief escape. <br>The Ferris wheel is quiet at Coney Island <br>And quaintness trades no longer on the Cape; <br>While meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps <br>To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn up the steam. The year is growing older. <br>The maple boughs are red. <br>Summer, farewell. Farewell the sunburnt shoulder <br>Farewell the peasant kerchief on the head. <br>Farewell the thunderstorm, complete with lightning, <br>And the white shoe that ever needeth whitening. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell, vacation friendships, sweet but tenuous <br>Ditto to slacks and shorts, <br>Farewell, O strange compulsion to be strenuous <br>Which sends us forth to death on tennis courts. <br>Farewel, Mosquito, horror of our nights; <br>Clambakes, iced tea, and transatlantic flights. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The zinnia withers, mortal as the tulip. <br>Now from the dripping glass <br>I'll sip no more the amateur mint julep <br>Nor dine al fresco on the alien grass; <br>Nor scale the height nor breast the truculent billow <br>Nor lay my head on any weekend pillow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unstintingly I yield myself to Autumn <br>And Equinoctial sloth. <br>I hide my swim suit in the bureau's bottom <br>Nor fear the fury of the after-moth <br>Forswearing porch and pool and beetled garden, <br>My heart shall rest, my arteries shall harden. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welcome, kind Fall, and every month with 'r' in <br>Whereto my mind is bent. <br>Come, sedentary season that I star in, <br>O fire-lit Winter of my deep content! <br>Amid the snow, the sleet, the blizzard's raw gust <br>I shall be cozier than I was in August. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Safe from the picnic sleeps the unlittered dell. <br>The last Good Humor sounds its final bell <br>And all is silence. <br>Summer, farewell, farewell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Phyllis+McGinley">Phyllis McGinley</a><div class=q>
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Adieu gregarious season. 
Goodbye, 'revoir, farewell. 
Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze on 
Forsaken beach and boarded-up hotel. 
Now wild geese fly together in thin lines 
And Tourist Homes take down their lettered..."></div>
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