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BURNING LEAVES, NOVEMBER by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE ARE FOLIOS OF APRIL
Last Line: NEW EDITIONS EVERY YEAR.
Subject(s): LEAVES; PUBLISHING; PUBLISHERS;

THESE are folios of April,
All the library of spring,
Missals gilt and rubricated
With the frost's illumining.

Ruthless, we destroy these treasures,
Set the torch with hand profane --
Gone, like Alexandrian vellums,
Like the books of burnt Louvain!

Yet these classics are immortal:
O collectors, have no fear,
For the publisher will issue
New editions every year.



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