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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 39: NATURE’S PLAN.
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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.

NATURE’S PLAN.

I am a part of Nature’s plan,
A part of her great work;
And incomplete would be all life
Should I my duty shirk.

I am a thread in Nature’s web,
If stitch is dropped by me,
The fabric most imperfect is,
Will not accepted be.

I am a stone the builder needs,
No other stone will do;
Nor structure ever finished be
For naught will do in lieu.

For I was fitted for the place,
Was taken from the earth,
And cut to fill this vacancy,
E’en at my very birth.

There is a leaf in Nature’s book
That is reserved for me,
And I must write my name thereon,
No blank in book must be.

I am a drop in Life’s great sea.
A drop seems very small;
But drops of water, grains of sand
Are worthy of God’s call.

I am a little candle light
That throws its beams—not far,
Yet lighting up the space around
E’en as a little star.

I may be but a common weed,
But weeds, in time, are flowers,
And are a part of Nature’s plan
To beautify God’s bowers.