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Illustrated autumn forest with golden leaves falling, bright sunset, and three birds flying.

Illustrated autumn forest with golden leaves falling, bright sunset, and three birds flying.

The sun, grown mild, now paints the western sky, (A) And lays a sheet of gold upon the floor, (B) The quiet days forget the summer's roar, (B) As amber shadows lengthen and then die. (A) A hush descends where geese fly swiftly by, (A) Their fading cry floats to the distant shore, (B) The turning leaves fall softly evermore, (B) As if to bid the year a soft goodbye. (A) A final, fragile beauty it now keeps, (C) Before the frost descends and makes it bare; (D) A golden silence hanging in the air, (C) A quiet promise that the spirit reaps, (D) And so the world in brilliant stillness sleeps, (C) Before the winter's lonely, cold despair. (D) See more