A Late Walk       When I go up through the mowing field,   The headless aftermath,   Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,   Half closes the garden path.     And when I come to the garden ground,   The whir of sober birds   Up from the tangle of withered weeds   Is sadder than any words.     A tree beside the wall stands bare,   But a leaf that lingered brown,   Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,   Comes softly rattling down.     I end not far from my going forth   By picking the faded blue   Of the last remaining aster flower   To carry again to you.
					                            						
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