At Day-Close In November

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Title:     At Day-Close In November
Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy]

The ten hours' light is abating,
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss.

Beech leaves, that yellow the noon-time,
Float past like specks in the eye;
I set every tree in my June time,
And now they obscure the sky.

And the children who ramble through here
Conceive that there never has been
A time when no tall trees grew here,
A time when none will be seen.

[The end]
Thomas Hardy's poem: At Day-Close In November

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