Reflection of Summer

"Farewell, Season!  You were very beautiful and rich.  No other summer can compare with you.  Today I recognize this even though there have been times when you made me terribly unhappy and sad.  As something to remember me by, I leave you my adventures, littered all over the park and the lanes and gardens.  I can't take my age [twenty] back with me, that will have to stay behind here for good.  Now you're sinking amont the shades, and down to the underworld along with you goes all this [...]"

-Bruno Shulz, Autumn