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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 54: LET US BUILD ABOVE THE STARS.
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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.

LET US BUILD ABOVE THE STARS.

Let us build above the stars,
We are able to thus build,
There is nothing that debars
Us from ever doing so.

Though foundation be the earth;
Have the corner-stone well laid;
If it grounded was at birth,
We can rest our pillars there.

Have our plans all drawn with skill,
And have God as architect.
We must ever do His will,
And must trust Him ever, aye.

Even though we fall to earth
With the plans that God has made.
What we’ve gained, to us is worth
All the efforts we have made.