Quote#Nature
Within the sober realm of leafless trees
Quote byThomas Buchanan Read · 1822–1872
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1853), The Closing Scene, st. 1.
English (original)
Within the sober realm of leafless trees, The russet year inhaled the dreamy air; Like some tanned reaper, in his hour of ease, When all the fields are lying brown and bare.
— Thomas Buchanan Read
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