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Clocks Back Tonight - It's Mellow Fruitfulness Time

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Canary42 | 11:40 Sat 29th Oct 2022 | ChatterBank
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Keats.
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Ah the season of mists and mellow fruitlessness!!!

(the apples are all but finished in the orchard I visit)
And next up dark and dreary November.
Yes, November almost upon us, my least-favourite month. Getting ever-darker and colder but winter not yet begun, and spring too far off to believe in. Waking up too early because the clocks have gone back.

And another birthday for me.
//Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? //

Can't exactly do Spring - but would Summer do? We have roses blooming in our garden.
That poem is truly lovely. Like most people I guess, I only know the opening lines. I don't know why, but it brought tears to my eyes !
The season of oncoming cold & dark, and decreasing enthusiasm for doing anything much, that's what it is.
I've been that way for the past month...unless the sun is shining.
Well, we do have Christmas to look forward to.

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