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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

“The Fragile Season”

Yvor Winters

THE SCENT of summer thins,

The air grows cold.

One walks alone

And chafes one’s hands.

The fainter aspens

Thin to air.

The dawn

Is frost on roads.

This ending of the year

Is like the lacy ending

of a last year’s leaf

Turned up in silence.

Air gives way to cold.