Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather: Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
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A Song for September, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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