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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WARNING, by DOROTHY HOLLOWAY PFLAGER
First Line: Like crimson wind-tossed leaves
Last Line: Remembering its flaw.
Subject(s): Prudence; Caution
First Line: Like crimson wind-tossed leaves
Last Line: Remembering its flaw.
Subject(s): Prudence; Caution
Like crimson wind-tossed leaves
Scarring the gray fall skies
Is mortal ecstasy, so beautiful, so brief,
No human rule applies.
Poignant, it is, yet touched with pity, too,
Pity, that anything so new to life's real breath
For all its fresh and buoyant loveliness
Could be so near to death.
He is, indeed, most wise
Who meets it, not with awe,
But lightly, with a casual smile,
Remembering its flaw.
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