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  • Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
    Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,--
    Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,--
    Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

    Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.33