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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 66: TOMORROW.
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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.

TOMORROW.

O the sweet happy thoughts of tomorrow.—
No shadowy clouds in Life’s sky,
No tears in our eyes, and no mourning,
No trouble in pathway doth lie.

Today may be filled with dark shadows,
Tomorrow they all clear away.
For Hope is the goddess that guides us,
Tomorrow she with us will stay.

Tomorrow may not be as happy
As Hope bids us look for, today.
But if we’ve reached out for Life’s gladness,
Life’s gladness will come in our way.

’Tis better to seek the bright sunshine;
The rainbow comes after the clouds,
And sweeter is life after storm-clouds,
For vanished the gloom that enshrouds.