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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 47: GOD IS EVERYWHERE.
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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.

GOD IS EVERYWHERE.

God guides us o’er the barren wilds,
And o’er the waters still;
He guides us in all walks of life
If we but do His will.

Is with us in the sunshine bright,
And in the falling rain;
And God is in the pastures green,
And in the growing grain.

And He is in the fragrant flower,
And in the smallest weed;
Is in our every thought, and act,
Is in our every deed.

He dwells upon the mountains high,
He dwells upon the lea;
He made, and rules the ocean grand.
He dwells upon the sea.

Through ignorance we oftimes sin,
God loves us though we fall;
He helps us to arise again,
Does ever on us call.

’Tis vain to mourn, ’tis vain to weep,
And we should feel, should know
That life is not a funeral dirge,
That life is not all woe.

And we must live for others’ weal;
Of evil e’er beware.
And we must love, and we must trust;
For God is everywhere.