XII
ON THE TENTH OF OCTOBER
YOU'LL not believe the aspen leaf (Whose season you would say was brief)
Hangs long and greener on the tree Than sycamore, than hickory.
Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]
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- Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]
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- Savage, Philip Henry, 1868-1899
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- Boston: Small, Maynard, and Company
- 1900
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Page 149
The elm-leaf crumbles brown; the oak Is even sooner gray and broke.
The maple reddens, and the ash Leaps up and falls at Autumn's lash;
The aspen leaf will longest stay, Be sure; I saw them green to-day.