Where fade the tracks of all who went before:

A dim and solitary traveller

On ways that end in evening and the waste.

THE LAST DAYS

The russet leaves of the sycamore

Lie at last on the valley floor—

By the autumn wind swept to and fro

Like ghosts in a tale of long ago.

Shallow and clear the Carmel glides

Where the willows droop on its vine-walled sides.