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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 121: AUTUMN LEAVES.
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A compact poetry collection gathers short lyrical and didactic pieces that reflect on mortality, memory, love, duty, and spiritual consolation, often using nature and seasonal imagery to frame moral and emotional insights. Many poems shift between wistful reverie and exhortation, imagining dreamlike flights, harvest metaphors about deeds and consequences, prayers, meditations on motherhood and friendship, and speculative lines about reincarnation and the afterlife. The work mixes tender sentiment, moral counsel, and pastoral description across brief, accessible poems that alternate consolation with sober reminders of life's hardships.

AUTUMN LEAVES.

I now have culled from out Life’s forest
These Autumn Leaves which I shall send you
They have been pressed into service
For my little book.

Perhaps if you the leaves had chosen,
You would have culled more brilliant colors,
And pressed them better too.

By careful searching you may find one
That pleases you by word, or measure,
And cherished e’en will be.

I hope that you will take some pleasure
In reading book, and conning measure.
But kindly criticise.

I give my leaves into your keeping,
I hope with love you will receive them,
These offsprings of my heart.