| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Autumn Morning at Cambridge | | By Frances Cornford (1886–1960) |
| | | I RAN out in the morning when the air was clean and new, | |
| And all the grass was glittering and grey with autumn dew; | |
| I ran out to the apple-tree and pull’d an apple down, | |
| And all the bells were ringing in the grey old town. | |
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| Down in the town off the bridges and the grass | 5 |
| They are sweeping up the leaves to let the people pass,— | |
| Sweeping up the old leaves, golden-reds and browns, | |
| Whilst the men go to lecture with the wind in their gowns. | | | | |
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