Coral.coloured yew-berries 
Strew the garden ways, 
Hollyhocks and sunflowers 
Make a dazzling blaze 
In these latter days. 

Marigolds by cottage doors 
Flaunt their golden pride, 
Crimson-punctured bramble leaves 
Dapple far and wide 
The green mountain-side. 

Far away, on hilly slopes 
Where fleet rivulets run, 
Miles on miles of tangled fern, 
Burnished by the sun, 
Glow a copper dun. 

For the year that's on the wane, 
Gathering all its fire, 
Flares up through the kindling world 
As, ere they expire, 
Flames leap high and higher.