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“Autumn” by Guillaume Apollinaire 🇫🇷 (26 Aug 18809 Nov 1918)
Translated from the French by John Cobley
Into the fog go a knock-kneed peasant
And his ox slowly into the autumn fog
That hides the poor and miserable villages
And as he moves away the peasant intones
A song of love and infidelity
Which tells of a ring and a broken heart
Oh! autumn autumn has made summer die
Into the fog go two grey silhouettes