“I love to see, when leaves depart,
The clear anatomy arrive,
Winter, the paragon of art,
That kills all forms of life and feeling
Save what is pure and will survive.”

—  Roy Campbell (poet)

"Autumn," lines 1-5
Sons of the Mistral (1926)

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South African poet 1901–1957

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