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Autumn Leaves

Chapter 85: REINCARNATION.
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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.

REINCARNATION.

I feel that I have lived before,
That I shall live again.
Shall yet have my desires fulfilled,
Although I know not when.

If now is all there is of life,
What use to me was birth?
Not one desire has been fulfilled,
Since first I came to earth.

There is a realm not yet explored,
I feel it in my soul,
I’ll struggle on (though oft I fail)
To reach that blissful goal.

Full oft I catch a glimpse of past.
Old mem’ries round me throng.
The mem’ries of a long gone past.—
Again I hear a song

That I once heard in previous life,
And it to me doth seem
As though an angel sang the song;
My life his chosen theme.

The notes seem now so strange and weird.
I’ve heard them though, before;
In former life the music sweet
Came from celestial shore.

A vague, vague dream of other lives
Doth often with me stay;
But when I try to hold the dream,
It vanishes straightway.

My present life is incomplete.
A fragment is of past.
I shall take up the threads again,
And in Life’s loom them cast.

The “Great First Cause” has charge of
The lives that have been mine.
The web that’s woven on Life’s loom
In time becomes divine.

Absorbed in God I soon shall be.
E’en now I feel Love’s kiss.
Life’s struggles soon will ended be
In everlasting bliss.

What was my life in that dim past?
It matters not to me.
My Karma of the past will be
Absorbed in Deity.