Sickly Autumn
Guillaume Apollinaire
Sickly and adored autumn
You'll die when the hurricane blows in the rose garden
When it snows
In the orchards

Poor autumn
Die in the whiteness and wealth
Of snow and ripe fruit
Deep in the sky
Sparrow hawks hover
Above dizzy green-haired nymphs and dwarves
Who've never loved

By the edge of far off forests
Stags have belled

And how I love o season how I love your murmur
Fruit falling with no one to gather it
The wind and the forest weeping
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
                                  The leaves
                                  Trampled
                                  A train
                                  Travels past
                                  Life
                                  Elapses
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