GEORGE EDMUNDS' SONG
by: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- UTUMN leaves, autumn leaves, lie
strewn around he here;
- Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear!
- How like the hopes of childhood's day,
- Thick clust'ring on the bough!
- How like those hopes in their decay--
- How faded are they now!
- Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around me here;
- Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear!
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- Wither'd leaves, wither'd leaves, that fly before the gale:
- Withered leaves, withered leaves, ye tell a mournful tale,
- Of love once true, and friends once kind,
- And happy moments fled:
- Dispersed by every breath of wind,
- Forgotten, changed, or dead!
- Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around me here!
- Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear!
"George Edmunds' Song"
is reprinted from The Poems and Verse of Charles Dickens.
Ed. F.G. Kitton. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. |
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