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A Calendar of Sonnets: August

Silence again. The glorious symphony
 Hath need of pause and interval of peace.
 Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds cease,
 Save hum of insects’ aimless industry.
 Pathetic summer seeks by blazonry
 Of color to conceal her swift decrease.
 Weak subterfuge! Each mocking day doth fleece
 A blossom, and lay bare her poverty.
 Poor middle-agèd summer! Vain this show!
 Whole fields of golden-rod cannot offset
 One meadow with a single violet;
 And well the singing thrush and lily know,
 Spite of all artifice which her regret
 Can deck in splendid guise, their time to go!
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