No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
These are the opening lines of Donne's Elegy IX: The Autumnal.
On this day -- which is the last day of summer -- 2 or 3 lines a day pays tribute to autumnal faces . . . and to autumnal bodies, hearts, and minds.
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