# Autumn Leaves

By [abc](https://paragraph.com/@abc-17) · 2023-03-04

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Sweep the leaves together,

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Yellow, brown and red,

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Let us make a bonfire ,

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Now that they are dead.

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Chestnut leaves and beach leaves,

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Ash and lime and oak,

Fir-cones and pine needles ,

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Kindle into smoke.

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Leaves that all the summer,

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Gave us cool and shade,

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What will be left of them,

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When our bonfire's made?

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Only death—like ashes,

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But from this same dust,

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Sun one day will fashion ,

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Life anew, we trust.

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