"Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast" has been composed by W. H. Auden. His full name was Wystan Hugh Auden. He was Born in 21 February, 1907 in New York, United Kingdom and Died in 29 September, 1973 in Vienna, Austria. He was an Anglo-American poet. His important works are:- "The Age of Anxiety", "The Orators", etc. W.H. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his collection "The Age of Anxiety". He got M.A in English language and Literature from Oxford University.

Now the leaves are falling fast,

Nurse's flowers will not last;

Nurses to the graves are gone,

And the prams go rolling on.

Whispering neighbours, left and right,

Pluck us from the real delight:

And the active hands must freeze

Lonely on the separate knees.

Dead in hundreds at the back

Follow wooden in our track,

Arms raised stiffly to reprove

In false attitudes of love.

Starving through the leafless wood

Trolls run scolding for their food;

And the nightingale is dumb.

And the angel will not come.

Cold, impossible, ahead

Lists the mountain's lovely head

Whose white waterfall could bless

Travellers in their last distress.