Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Author: Thomas H. Hall Caine
Date of Composition: 1880 May 12
Type of Manuscript: holograph fair copy
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- As when the red ripe harvest, newly mown,
- Is gathered to a garner where it fell,
- And some stout reaper, laden all too well,
- Bears to the barn what grain his fields have grown,
- And, striding through the stubble, feels it blown
- In stray end ears, by wayward winds, away;
- And sees the younglings snatch the shreds in play
- And fly in first, and house them for their own:—
- So thou, Rossetti, seëst thy Autumn crown'd
- 10With the full fruit, and markest many a mate
- Grow great with spoils in steps of thy feet found;
- Yet farest thou best: Well may'st thou choose to wait;
- For lo, strong toiler, thou com'st last, though late,
- Laden with golden treasure to the ground.
Transcribed Footnote (page [1]):
*This sonnet would be
more seasonable if dated, say, May 12
th 2000.
May a better sonnet celebrate that truer Autumn! T.H.H.C.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File:
caine001.sangms.rad.xml
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