The Fall Of The Leaf
the fall of the leaf the lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill, cealing the course of the dark-winding rill; how languid the ses, late shtly, appear! as autumn to winter resigns the pale year. the forests are leafless, the meadows are brown, and all the gay foppery of summer is flown: apart let me wander, apart let me muse, how quick time is flying, how keen fate pursues! how long i have liv'd—but how much liv'd in vain, how little of life's sty span may remain, what aspects old time in his progress has worn, what ties cruel fate, in my bosom has torn. how foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain'd! and downward, how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd! life is not worth having with all it give— for something beyond it poor man sure must live.