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An Autumn Walk.

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Adown the track that skirts the shallow stream      I wandered with blank mind; a bypath drew      My aimless steps aside, and, ere I knew,     The forest closed around me like a dream.     The gold-strewn sward, the horizontal gleam      Of the low sun, pouring its splendors through      The far-withdrawing vistas, filled the view,     And everlasting beauty was supreme.     I knew not past or future; 'twas a mood      Transcending time and taking in the whole.     I was both young and old; my lost childhood,      Years yet unlived, were gathered round one goal;     And death was there familiar. Long I stood,      And in eternity renewed my soul.

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