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First Line: When withered leaves are lost in flame
Last Line: Eternal beauty, back to you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Beauty; Leaves; Spring


WHEN withered leaves are lost in flame
Their eddying ghosts, a thin blue haze,
Blow through the thickets whence they came
On amberlucent autumn days.

The cool green woodland heart receives
Their dim, dissolving, phantom breath;
In young hereditary leaves
They see their happy life-in-death.

My minutes perish as they glow --
Time burns my crazy bonfire through;
But ghosts of blackened hours still blow,
Eternal Beauty, back to you!





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