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Sanctuary
Sunshine House Sonnets
by
Bliss Carman
Illustrations
by Whitman Bailey
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AUTUMN
CLOSING
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The
show is over, and the leafy tent
All gold and crimson where the sunlight lingered
Through the slow afternoon, is coming down.
The bittersweet is scarlet on the bough
Reluctant to be gone, though frosts have strewn
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Patrins
of glory on the forest trails,
While tatters of torn splendor go to feed
The smoky bonfires in the village street.
What singer pipes the closing autumn hush
With surest note of cheer in all the wild?
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A dauntless
minstrel of the changing year,
Chickadee of the wilderness! He knows
What sweetness gathers in the winter’s heart,
What saving oracles the North Wind sings.
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