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NOVEMBER AFTERNOONS, by                    
First Line: Now they have come, those afternoons in november
Last Line: At peace with beauty and needing no song at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline


Now they have come, those afternoons in November,
When all the air is still and branches are bare,
And the long, lovely light that I remember
Invades with luminous peace the untroubled air.

Off to the west a dozen trees together
Stand in grey loveliness, bemused with light;
Slender and silver they stand in the autumn weather,
Waiting the inevitable winter, the inevitable night.

Blossoming light they bear as a single flower,
And silence more singing sweet than a lone bird's call.
Off to the west I stand, sharing their hour,
At peace with beauty and needing no song at all.





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