Alfred Austin (1835-1913) was from England and wore several hats throughout his career, Alfred Austin was a critic, novelist and political journalist. Although he was educated in law, his professional life focused primarily on literature becoming poet laureate of England in 1896.
Poem:
When the reaper lays the sickle by,
and taketh down the flail:
when all we prized, and all we planned,
is ripe and stored at last,
and autumn looks across the land,
and ponders on the past.
