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TO AUTUMN.

1 Sweet Autumn! how the melancholy grace
2 Steals on my heart, as through these shades I wind!
3 Sooth'd by thy breathing sigh, I fondly trace
4 Each lonely image of the pensive mind!
5 Lov'd scenes, lov'd friends — long lost! around me rise,
6 And wake the melting thought, the tender tear!
7 That tear, that thought, which more than mirth I prize —
8 Sweet as the gradual tint that paints thy year!
9 Thy farewell smile, with fond regret, I view,
10 Thy beaming lights, soft gliding o'er the woods;
11 Thy distant landscape, touch'd with yellow hue,
12 While falls the lengthen'd gleam; thy winding floods,
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13 Now veil'd in shade, save where the skiff's white sails
14 Swell to the breeze, and catch thy streaming ray.
15 But now, e'en now! — the partial vision fails,
16 And the wave smiles, as sweeps the cloud away!
17 Emblem of life! — Thus checquer'd is its plan,
18 Thus joy succeeds to grief — thus smiles the varied man!

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Title (in Source Edition): TO AUTUMN.
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, pp. 88-89. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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