As Imperceptibly as Grief

Lyrics

As imperceptibly as grief The summer lapsed away,— Too imperceptible, at last To seem like perfidy A quietness distilled As twilight long begun Or Nature, spending with herself Sequestered afternoon The dusk drew earlier in The morning foreign shone,— A courteous, yet harrowing grace As guest who would be gone And thus, without a wing Or service of a keel Our summer made her light escape Into the beautiful