“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.”

—  Thomas Hood

Ode. Autmn http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_5.htm#195b, st. 1 (1827).
1820s

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