Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A LEAF, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND


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First Line: A leaf falls softly at my feet
Last Line: So much that was most dear to me.
Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood


A LEAF falls softly at my feet,
Sated with rain and summer heat;
What time this leaf was green and new,
I still had parents dear and true.
A leaf—how soon it fades away!
Child of the spring, the autumn's prey;
Yet has this leaf outlived, I see,
So much that was most dear to me.





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