This is the season of our lonely dreams.

(O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun

She is not by, to know my task is done!)

The corn-shocks westward on the stubble plain

Show like an Indian village of dead days;

The long smoke trails behind the crawling train,

And floats atop the distant woods ablaze

With orange, crimson, purple. The low haze

Dims the scarped bluffs above the inland sea,

Whose wide and slaty waters in cold glaze