bluerain

by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

• UTUMN is over the long leaves that love us,

  And over the mice in the barley sheaves;

  Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,

  And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.

  The hour of the waning of love has beset us,

  And weary and worn are our sad souls now;

  Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,

  With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.