AUTUM

SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS

CLOSE BOSOM-FRIEND OF THE MATURING SUN

CONSPIRING WITH HIM HOW TO LOAD AND BLESS

WITH FRUIT THE VINES THAT ROUND THE THATCH-EVES RUN

TO BEND WITH APPLES THE MOSS'D COTTAGE-TREES

AND FILL ALL FRUIT WITH RUPNESS TO THE CORE;>

TO SWELL TH GOURD, AND PLUMP THE HAZLES SHELLS

WITH A SWEET KERNEL; TO SET BUDDING MORE

AND STILL MORE, LATER FLOWERS OF THE BEES

UNTIL THEY THINK WARM DAYS WILL NEVER CEASE

FOR SUMMER HAS O'ER BRIMM'D THEIR CLAMMY CELLS

composed by ....JOHN KEATS back