Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.


Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.