Autumn Night

Autumn Night

Silver light on the autumn trees

Fills their leaves with ice

While gentle breezes all round

Blow their leaves to the sky

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Stars paint the blackened night

Stealing the breath of moon

She stays behind the softened clouds

To hide her envious swoon

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Crickets play their gentle song

The night is their time

And the weeping willow swings her boughs

To join in their rhyme

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A pair of lovers walk hand in hand

Enjoying their heart's romance

They wish this night would last forever

And their love stay in its trance

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Another song steals the sky

This no ear can hear

For the moon retreats to horizon's edge

As sun will soon appear

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Pinks, reds, and blues

Fill the softening sky

Silence is heard all around

As night whispers good bye

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As fast as the darkness came

It was tucked away by the dawn

Forcing me to wait the morrow

For the night of which I am fond