As imperceptibly as grief

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1. As imperceptibly as grief
2. The summer lapsed away, --
3. Too imperceptible, at last,
4. To seem like perfidy.
5.  
6. A quietness distilled,
7. As twilight long begun,
8. Or Nature, spending with herself
9. Sequestered afternoon.
10.  
11. The dusk drew earlier in,
12. The morning foreign shone, --
13. A courteous, yet harrowing grace,
14. As guest who would be gone.
15.  
16. And thus, without a wing,
17. Or service of a keel,
18. Our summer made her light escape
19. Into the beautiful.