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NOT FOREVER by MAGDALENE BURMEISTER

First Line: THERE IS AN END TO GRIEF!
Last Line: OF THE MOULDERING LEAF!
Subject(s): GRIEF;
There is an end to grief!
.... As there is an end
To the scarlet leaf:

Follow it whirling
Over brown hilltops,
Seeking dark spaces,
Somnolent places;
Drugging its pain
In a last wild embrace
With the furious rain;

Then to lie huddled
(Buried in grasses --
Unknowing, there passes
A storm overhead);
Once vivid as rust,
Upon the earth's crust
Now dissolving to dust!

There is an end to grief!
.... Witness the calm
Of the mouldering leaf!



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