THE AUTUMN.
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Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,
Which once refresh'd our mind,
Shall come—as, on those sighing woods,
The chilling autumn wind.
Hear not the wind—view not the woods;
Look out o'er vale and hill:
In spring, the sky encircled them—
The sky is round them still.
Come autumn's scathe—come winter's cold—
Come change—and human fate!
Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,
Can ne'er be desolate.
