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September 9 is the 252 day of the year (253rd in leap year) in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.
Autumn
"Summer ends now; barbarous in beauty, the
Stocks arise.
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what
lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, wilful-waver
Meal-drift moles ever and melted across the skies?.
By Gerald Manly Hopkins, Hurrahing in Harvest, 1918