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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 4: 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.

The autumn leaves are like our lives,
They serve their purpose for a day,
They then return to mother Earth:
They come but to decay.

The trees are gaunt, gaunt sentinels,
Deprived of their warm dress.
They shiver in their nakedness,
And moan in their distress.

But, as with us, they live again,
Again have garments fresh and new,
And though they seem to die to earth,
Again their lives renew.

Again the joy of living comes,
And brighter now is their new life;
They had a season of sweet sleep,
And rest from worldly strife.