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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 67: CONSOLATION.
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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.

CONSOLATION.

To my soul a voice hath spoken,
Hath spoken thus to me.
O earth-child be not discouraged,
For God doth pity thee.

Though thy way be filled with shadows,
And Life’s sun obscured by clouds;
Though Life’s road seems leading downward,
And deep darkness all enshrouds;

There is light for thee, and gladness,
And sweet Peace will thee enfold.
In the evening, in the gloaming
Joy unbounded will thee hold.

Never more will desolation
In thy heart find resting place,
If with Love thou meetest troubles,
And with him thou keepest pace.