Haze Gold [German translation]

Sun, you may send your haze gold

Filling the fall afternoon

With a flimmer of many gold feathers.

Leaves, you may linger in the fall sunset

Like late lingering butterflies before frost.

Treetops, you may sift the sunset cross-lights

Spreading a loose checker-work of gold and shadow.

Winter comes soon - shall we save this, lay it by,

Keep all we can of these haze gold yellows?

• Artist:Carl Sandburg