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 And there are acorns, yellow—green...

They said the King was at the end.

They must have been

Wrong. For here, here, I intend

To search for him, for surely here

Are all the wares of the old year,

And all the beauty and bright prize,

And all God's colours meetly showed,

Green for the grass, blue for the skies,

Red for the rain upon the road;

And anything you like for trees,

But chiefly yellow, brown and gold,

Because the year is growing old

And loves to paint her children these.

I tried to follow... but, what do you think?

The mushrooms here are pink!

And there's old clover with black polls,

Black-headed clover, black as coals,

And toad-stools, sleek as ink!

And there are such heaps of little turns

Off the road, wet with old rain:

Each little vegetable lane

Of moss and old decaying ferns,

Beautiful in decay,

Snatching a beauty from whatever may

Be their lot, dark-red and luscious: till there pass'd

Over the many-coloured earth a grey

Film. It was evening coming down at last.

And all things hid their faces, covering up

Their peak or hood or bonnet or bright cup 21