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Gray November

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I.     Dull, dimly gleaming,     The dawn looks downward     Where, flowing townward,     The river, steaming     With mist, is hidden:     Each bush, that huddles     Beside the road, the rain has pooled with puddles,     Seems, in the fog, a hag or thing hag-ridden. II.     Where leaves hang tattered     In forest tangles,     And woodway angles     Are acorn-scattered,     Coughing and yawning     The woodsman slouches,     Or stands as silent as the hound that crouches     Beside him, ghostly in the mist-drenched dawning. III.     Through roses, rotting     Within the garden,     With blooms, that harden,     Of marigolds, knotting,     (Each one an ember     Dull, dead and dripping,)     Her brow, from which their faded wreath is slipping,     Mantled in frost and fog, comes in November.

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