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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 52: DEPLORE NOT THE SHADOWS OF LIFE.
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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.

DEPLORE NOT THE SHADOWS OF LIFE.

Our lives are rounded out by pain,
And though it oft doth seem
That we have more than we can bear,
Through it we catch a gleam

Of light celestial from on high;
The angels speak sweet words
Of hope, and peace, encouragement,
Their loving care engirds

Our weary, worn, and saddened hearts,
And though not understood
While here on earth, we know full well
Our lives, by God are viewed.

E’en though in life are many clouds;
There is some sunshine too;
Then store the sunshine you may have
And shadows not pursue.