“When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare.”

Man was made to Mourn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796

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“When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare.”