Autumn Light
''Hail to the autumn light
Hail to the autumn night
How I live for your gentle respite
And the long slow death of the year
Summer is over and autumn is come
The sun now gentle, her strength fading long
She spills her love on homestead and tree
And bears her burden to shadowed reprieve
The wind whispers a soothing harmony
Amid red leaves that shed to the time
Of some hidden rhythm deep inside the earth
That bears us down and into rebirth
Hail to the autumn light
Hail to the autumn night
How I live for your gentle respite
And the long slow death of the year
I love the shadows of rustling tree leaves
I love the soothing scent of cold air shifting
I love the long nights borne round the home fire
And the arms of my lover that stoke my desire
I love the cool tang of the earth on my feet
I love the grey clouds that brood without conceit
I love the bird song as life ekes its last
The days grow shorter, the moon reclaims his task
Hail to the autumn light
Hail to the autumn night
How I live for your gentle respite
And the long slow death of the year''
~ Henry Lauer
