With fresh impatience, o’er and o’er,

I count the hours;—yet still am fain

To tell them over once again.

O hasten, hasten, autumn days!

Sear swift this dewy, summer green!

I am grown weary with delays;

Speed! Speed!

Bring bitter winds and chill, nor heed

The mellow sweets between!

What if the dead leaves strew the ways,