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Excerpt from The Fate of the Leaf
Was dimly luminous; and filmy folds Of the Madonna's gossamer unfurled In formless shreds Of visionary grace, Which melted on the View. And whitely glowed, Like a vast, heated pearl, the vault serene Of the thigh heavens, as when in that first day Of the creation's birth, God spoke the light Into existence, ere the sun appeared.
Long lines Of smoky hills, where Autumn's fires Fed, smouldering, upon the dying Year Even before it breathed its latest sigh Retreating, shrank away, and from their sides Thrust out the burning maples, all a?ame With crimson, green, and golden lights, absorbed From neighboring growths, all wanly faded now. Boldly relieved against the ashen skies Loomed the grim figures Of the fragrant pines; In russet vineyards, on the terraced cliffs, Dark purple clusters, gathering their stores, Among the leaves ambushed their potencies While on high boughs the red-gold apples shone Like stars, above the stony orchard-walls.
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