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Autumn

By Amy Lowell
All day I have watched the purple vine leaves
Fall into the water.
And now in the moonlight they still fall,
But each leaf is fringed with silver.

Source: Poetry (September 1919)
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An edited Poetry Magazine by Harriet Moore. The issue is from September of 1919.
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