“Now the leaves are falling fast,
Nurse's flowers will not last;
Nurses to their graves are gone,
And the prams go rolling on.”

—  W. H. Auden

Source: Autumn Song (1936), Lines 1–4

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Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

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