Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, And all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below Falling on the cobblestones and the lawn. All of winter will return to me derision, Hate, shuddering, horror, drudgery and vice, And exiled, like the sun, to a polar prison, My soul will harden into a block of red ice. I shiver as I listen to each log crash and slam The echoes are as dull as executioners' drums. My mind is like a tower that slowly succumbs To the blows of a relentless battering ram. It seems to me, swaying to these shocks, that someone Is nailing down a coffin in a hurry somewhere. For whom? It was summer yesterday; now it's autumn. Echoes of departure keep resounding in the air.
Nice to see a poem by Baudelaire. A Classic. Thank you!
Bring it. Love autumn.