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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 79: THE BOOK OF GIFTS.
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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.

THE BOOK OF GIFTS.

An angel came to me one day
With “Book of Gifts” in hand,
And offered any one therein
That I should then demand.

With pride he pointed out to me
Each gift, and urged that I
Would take from them the choicest one.
For in his power did lie
The giving out of life’s rich stores.
This single time had man
Been given the choice of worldly gifts
Since life on earth began.

I had the choice of all life’s gifts,
Fame, honor, untold wealth.
I chose not one he offered me,
But begged for love and health.