Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH


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First Line: You take your summer, you take your spring
Last Line: Just about medium, just about right!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


You take your Summer, you take your Spring,
You take your Winter and everything.
Give me the Autumn, give me the Fall --
That is the dandiest season of all!

Summer's too hot and your Winter's too cold;
Spring half the time you are fooled and you're sold.
But on the Autumn a man can depend --
Springtime is fickle, but Autumn's his friend.

Easy on cattle, easy on sheep,
Easy to handle and easy to keep;
Colt in the meadow a-runnin' around --
Autumn suits that fellah down to the ground!

Pleasant for sleepin', and pleasant for work;
Toil like a Trojan and eat like a Turk.
None of your sweatin', and none of your freeze --
Regaler Autumn it is, if you please!

Life is worth livin' along about now --
Honest to goodness, a pleasure to plow!
Never a shiver, yet tang in the air --
No, you can't beat it, no time and nowhere!

Just enough warmness, just enough chill,
Just enough sunshine up there on the hill;
Just enough darkness, just enough light;
Just about medium, just about right!





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