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Now that the shapes have capitulated 

 comes the question of conquering the 

 region of the proscribed colours, of the 

 reserved shades, which the autumn, as 

 we can see, denies to the flowers that 

 represent it. Lavishly it bestows on 

 them all the wealth of the twilight and 

 the night, all the riches of the harvest- 

 time: it gives them all the mud-brown 

 work of the rain in the woods, all the 

 silvery fashionings of the mist in the 

 plains, of the frost and the snow in the 

 gardens. It permits them, above all, to 

 draw at will upon the inexhaustible 

 treasures of the dead leaves and the ex- 

 piring forest. It allows them to deck 



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