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"This high summer we
love will pour its light.

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The fields grown rich and
ragged in one strong moment,

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then before we're ready
will crash into autumn

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with a violence we can't accept,
a bounty we can't forgive.

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Night frost will strike
when the noons are warm,

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the pumpkins wildly glowing,
the green tomatoes straining

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huge on the vines.

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Queen Anne and Black-eyed
Susan will straggle rusty

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as the milkweed
stakes her claim.

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She who will stand
at last, dark sticks

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barely rising up
through the snow,

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her testament of continuation.

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We'll dream of a longer summer,
but this is the one we have.

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I lay my sunburnt
hand on your table--

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this is the time we have."