Tranquility at length, when autumn comes,
Will lie upon the spirit like that haze
Touching far islands on fine autumn days
With tenderest blue, like bloom on purple plums;
Harvest will ring, but not as summer hums,
With noisy enterprise — to broaden, raise,
Proceed, proclaim, estabish: autumn stays
The marching year one moment; stills the drums.
The sits the insistent cricket in the grass;
But on the gravel crawls the chilly bee;
And all is over that could come to pass
Last year; exceptin this: the mind is free
One moment, to compute, refute, amass,
Catalogue, question, contemplate, and see.

[Edna St. Vincent Millay]
[11.02.2018]