Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Autumn Song (Ashley Library fair copy, three stanza version)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1848
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
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- Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
- How the heart feels a languid grief
- Laid on it for a covering,
- And how sleep seems a goodly thing
- In autumn at the fall of the leaf?
- And how the swift beat of the brain
- Falters because it is in vain
- In autumn at the fall of the leaf,
- Knowest thou not? and how the chief
- 10Of joys seems not to suffer pain.
- Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
- How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
- Bound up at length for harvesting,
- And how death seems a comely thing
- In autumn at the fall of the leaf?
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