Torn and scattered around:

Far out afield they lie,

In the watery furrows die,

In grassy pools of the flood they sink and drown,

Green-golden, orange, vermilion, golden and brown,

The high year’s flaunting crown

Shattered and trampled down.

The day is done: the tired land looks for night:

She prays to the night to keep

In peace her nerves of delight: