Sheet of Flame

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Cloudy I remember it was cloudy And the sky a dreary gray The sun grew black and distant As if it could not stay Retreated past the point Of which I cannot see Taking with my happiness So only lonely could I be Autumn slowly changes Into the cold dark night Death all around us In colours vast and bright Deepest red to auburn brown Light yellow also too Fading like so many things To reappear anew Barrens branches without Snow upon them still Waiting for that ...

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There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met
  To view the last of me, a living frame
  For one more picture! in a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all. And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
  And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."
   -- Robert Browning