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AUTUMN LEAVES
- SWEEP the leaves together,
- Yellow, brown and red,
- Let us make a bonfire
- Now that they are dead.
- Chestnut leaves and beech leaves,
- Ash and lime and oak,
- Fir‐cones and pine needles
- Kindle into smoke.
- Leaves that all the summer
- Gave us cool and shade—
- What will be left of them
- When our bonfire’s made?
- Only death‐like ashes,
- But from this same dust
- Suns one day will fashion
- Life anew, we trust.
