How fits his Umber Coat
How fits his Umber Coat
The Tailor of the Nut?
Combined without a seam
Like Raiment of a Dream
Who spun the Auburn Cloth?
Computed how the girth?
The Chestnut aged grows
In those primeval Clothes
We know that we are wise
Accomplished in Surprise
Yet by this Countryman
This nature how undone!





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