The sun passes the equinox; the days shorten, the leaves grow sere; but-he is coming.

The effect upon the tree resembles that of a blight, the leaves grow sere, and the branches die.

In spring brightly green, and spangled with wild flowers, by midsummer this prairie had grown sere and yellow.

But the sky remained pitiless, and from my mountain eyry I could see the valley bottoms growing sere and yellow.