<> Unpublished Poems Greacen Estate 19 Jan Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Greacen015 Manuscript A London September English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen015 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen015_0.jpg LHL Archive A London Septembet Slabs of grey light fa11 earthward On paths brown-carpeted and crisp, That crackle underfoot at every step. Autumn rides back a gold-red, sober queen. Fall that we know so well, yet so endlessly new! We talk and walk under a temperate sun, Wishing for short silence; absence of fear, If only for a time; a cooling of the hot blood Of violence, wanting authority only to leave us in peace To stroll and chat under the leaf-thinned trees, Happy are children playing outside time's shutters - And mindless, too, of our blood-red hands. Text