“The dead leaves their rich mosaics
Of olive and gold and brown
Had laid on the rain-wet pavements,
Through all the embowered town.”

— Samuel Longfellow

November; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 562.

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