Sum

Fewell Bothwell Tull

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Just when the year learns

What life is all about,

Just when she learns it's not youth

Nor summer's hot kisses

Nor even maternity,

Just when she knows

What it's all for-

Winter and spring and summer,

The sum of it-October!

Next month you'll be so gray and tired,

And then so still and white.

October!