Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMN LEAVES, by MINNIE CASE HOPKINS


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AUTUMN LEAVES, by                    
First Line: About the chilly, ragged lawns they lie
Last Line: Could ask a fairer fate for them, or me?
Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology


About the chilly, ragged lawns they lie
In small decaying heaps. And pausing here,
I can but mark them sadly, crushed, forlorn,
Mute emblems of the slowly dying year.
Can they be those I saw so lately swing
Green-robed and merry on the maple trees,
And later, clad in flaming, golden gowns,
Joy-riding on the sweet October breeze?
Ride high and free, such little time ago
And now they lie so low! they lie so low!

And yet why pity them? Full well they lived
Their God-appointed plan, died joyously,
And left a golden memory! Pray who
Could ask a fairer fate for them, or me?





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