“Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning
Beneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled,
Till the slant sunbeams through the fringes raining
Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold.”

A still Day in Autumn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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United States poet 1803–1878

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