Season of Autumn

The Death of a Soldier
Wallace Stevens

Life contracts and death is expected,

As in a season of autumn.

The soldier falls.
He does not become a three-days personage,

Imposing his separation,Calling for pomp.
Death is absolute and without memorial,

As in a season of autumn,

When the wind stops,
When the wind stops and, over the heavens,

The clouds go, nevertheless,In their direction.