Source: The Halloween Tree (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 79)
“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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