Approach ~

the summer

is almost spent

 autumn advances

 nearer the threshold

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Nature gives to

 every time and season

 some beauties of its own;

 and from morning to night,

 as from the cradle to the grave,

 it is but a succession of changes

 so gentle and easy that

 we can scarcely mark

 their progress

Charles Dickens

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