Around The Lake

Around the lake the trees surround Reflections on the water shine, And deepest blue the autumn sky A picture that is so divine, The autumn all around me now As leaves are floating to the ground, A whisper of the summer gone As they fall without a sound. November still the morning bright The weeping willow there does stand, Touching shade where darkness falls And drapes the water and the land, It looks so sad now all is lost About to sleep through winter's cold, And cannot cling on anymore To all its falling leaves of gold. Which float upon the water's edge To where the ducks do swim and feed, Upon the bread from passers by Beside the languid sedge and reed, Around the lake the trees surround A palette rich in colours flow, And where the auburn yellows blend With all the scarlet ambers glow.