The Garden of the Seasons: October Gold on Stockbridge Bowl

The Golden Bowl

Every autumn we walk down here to the place where can see 

that the world glows deeply golden

and the water's blue as blue can be.

When the sky is open wholly

and the sun sits on the hillside, glow on glow,

everything is in its place, and the place is one we know.

Every evening come the shadows, and the glow begins to fade, 

still we come again the next day

to see what autumn gold has made.  

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