"In shapeless clumps the ferns are brown and dead Among the fir-trees dusk is swiftly born: The maples will be desolate by morn The last word of the summer has been said"
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Francis Joseph Sherman
Francis Joseph Sherman (February 3, 1871 – June 15, 1926) was a Canadian poet.
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