Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. B.C. Forbes

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I should like to enjoy this summer flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one for me. Andre Gide

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Here is the ghost of a summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be. William E. Henley

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Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. Hal Borland

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How much of the year is spring and fall! how little can be called summer! The grass is no sooner grown than it begins to wither. Henry David Thoreau

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There is light on the earth and leaves, as if they were burnished. It is the glistening autumnal side of summer. I feel a cool vein in the breeze, which braces my thought, and I pass with pleasure over sheltered and sunny portions of the sand where the summer's heat is undiminished, and I realize what a friend I am losing. Henry David Thoreau

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By roads 'not adopted', by woodlanded ways, / She drove to the club in the late summer haze. John Betjeman

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'Tis the last rose of summer / Left blooming alone; / All her lovely companions / Are faded and gone. Thomas Moore

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The rains of summer's end were very like tears, falling warm and gradually chilling where they fell. Lael Wertenbaker

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And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually. Jimi Hendrix

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The summer ends and we wonder where we are / And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car / And you both look so young / And last night was hard, you said / You packed up every room / And then you cried and went to bed / But today you closed the door and said / We have to get a move on. / It's just that time of year when we push ourselves ahead, / We push ourselves ahead. Robert Peter Williams; Guy Antony Chambers

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It's the end of the summer / It's the end of it all / Those days are gone, it's over now we're moving on / It's the end of the summer / But we'll see it all again / So hold on 'till this moment 'till then. Zac Maloy; Tyler Connolly; David Brenner; Dean Back

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Summer's End, Summer's End / Will the sun return, vital warmth to send? / Summer's End, Summer's End / Darkness lengthens in its stride across the sleeping land. Kristen Elise Lawrence

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Summer's end's around the bend just flying / The swimming suits are on the line just drying / I'll meet you there per our conversation / I hope I didn't ruin your whole vacation. John E Prine; Patrick James McLaughlin

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So where are we now / A summer's end autumn breeze / The winter is at your sleeve / The leaves have all gone / The windows are filled with frost / If I don't come home, I'm lost. Richard Lofthouse Butler; Richard P. Fortus

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It was a bright August morning / The trees were infatuated with the sky’s great power / Their leaves lapped at the heavens as if to suckle of its sustenance / Roots bulging with excitement / Branches reaching out in ecstasy / Leaves inhaling the sweet aroma of the late summer breeze / No thought of tempest or storm / No modesty in the midst of the surrounding neighbors / For the seasons had been painfully long / Thirst and expectation had been in great supply / Yet now in these unscripted moments they are one with the heavens and it is glorious. Gregory Cicio

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As pearls slip off a silken string and fall into the sea, / These rounded summer days fall back into eternity. / Into the deep from whence they came; into the mystery - / At set of sun each one slips back as pearls into the sea. / They are so sweet - so warm and sweet - Love fain would hold them fast: / He weeps when through his finger tips they slip away at last. Virna Sheard

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