I

 In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.

In warlike pomp, with banners flowing,

The regiments of autumn stood:

I saw their gold and scarlet glowing

From every hillside, every wood.

 Above the sea the clouds were keeping Their secret leaguer, gray and still; They sent their misty vanguard creeping With muffled step from hill to hill.

Above the sea the clouds were keeping

Their secret leaguer, gray and still;

They sent their misty vanguard creeping

With muffled step from hill to hill.

 All day the sullen armies drifted Athwart the sky with slanting rain; At sunset for a space they lifted, With dusk they settled down again.

All day the sullen armies drifted

Athwart the sky with slanting rain;

At sunset for a space they lifted,

With dusk they settled down again.

II

 At dark the winds began to blow With mutterings distant, low; From sea and sky they called their strength Till with an angry, broken roar, Like billows on an unseen shore, Their fury burst at length.

At dark the winds began to blow

With mutterings distant, low;

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