An Autumn Song + 

Are the leaves falling round about + 

The churchyard on the hill? + 

Is the glow of autumn going out? + 

Is that the winter chill? + 

And yet through winter’s noise, no doubt + 

The graves are very still! + 

Are the woods empty, voiceless, bare? + 

On sodden leaves do you tread? + 

Is nothing left of all those fair? + 

Is the whole summer fled? + 

Well, so from this unwholesome air + 

Have gone away these dead! + 

The seasons pierce me; like a leaf + 

I feel the autumn blow, + 

And tremble between nature’s grief + 

And the silent death below. + 

O Summer, thou art very brief! + 

Where do these exiles go? + 