"The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere -
The leaves they were withering and sere..."
(Edgar Allan Poe, "Ulalume", 1847)

"Autumnus frigidus et siccus, in quo prevalet melancolie potentia."
(anon., "Salernitan Questions", Bodleian MS., c. 1200)

Painting: John Atkinson Grimshaw, "An Autumn Idyll", 1885

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