In the realm where Autumn's melancholy reigns, And the rain, a spectral hand, doth strip the bough, From the Marple trees, leaves fall like silent pains, A woman's heart, a landscape of desolate plough. Her love, a sun that set beyond the hill, And she, a moon, forever chasing light, Her heart's Marple, once verdant with love's thrill, Now stands in twilight, its branches all a-quiver. The rain, it falls, a dirge for summer's green, Leaving naught but the skeletal truth of bare, So too her heart, where love once did serene, Now lies exposed, and feels the winter's snare. She cannot love, for her love is flown, Like the leaves that dance and never return, Her heart is a tome where his memory's sown, In the ink of loss, where it shall forever yearn. O, the Autumn rain, thou art the harbinger of woe, That dost foretell the end of love's sweet reign, And she, poor soul, must bear the sorrow's blow, For her love is...