Around the lake the trees surround <br />Reflections on the water shine, <br />And deepest blue the autumn sky <br />A picture that is so divine, <br />The autumn all around me now <br />As leaves are floating to the ground, <br />A whisper of the summer gone <br />As they fall without a sound. <br /> <br />November still the morning bright <br />The weeping willow there does stand, <br />Touching shade where darkness falls <br />And drapes the water and the land, <br />It looks so sad now all is lost <br />About to sleep through winter's cold, <br />And cannot cling on anymore <br />To all its falling leaves of gold. <br /> <br />Which float upon the water's edge <br />To where the ducks do swim and feed, <br />Upon the bread from passers by <br />Beside the languid sedge and reed, <br />Around the lake the trees surround <br />A palette rich in colours flow, <br />And where the auburn yellows blend <br />With all the scarlet ambers glow.<br /><br />ANDREW BLAKEMORE<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/around-the-lake-2/
