| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 17. A Song of Autumn |
| | | By Adam Lindsay Gordon |
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| ‘WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad | |
| At the falling of the year, | |
| When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad, | |
| When the boughs are yellow and sere? | |
| Where are the old ones that once we had, | 5 |
| And when are the new ones near? | |
| What shall we do for our garlands glad | |
| At the falling of the year?’ | |
| ‘Child! can I tell where the garlands go? | |
| Can I say where the lost leaves veer | 10 |
| On the brown-burnt banks, when the wild winds blow, | |
| When they drift through the dead-wood drear? | |
| Girl! when the garlands of next year glow, | |
| You may gather again, my dear— | |
| But I go where the last year’s lost leaves go | 15 |
| At the falling of the year.’ | |
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