Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AS DEAD LEAVES FALL, by KATHLEEN MONICA NICHOLSON


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AS DEAD LEAVES FALL, by                    
First Line: As dead leaves fall, crisp, feathery, and
Last Line: Where live they now past earth and life and time?
Subject(s): Holidays; Winter


As dead leaves fall, crisp, feathery, and brown,
Or red or yellow, blown to old earth's care
While winter whitely takes us unaware,
And summer fades, far dancing like a clown,
Into that world that knows nor field nor town,
Come thoughts of those who travel otherwhere
In hidden places past the veil of air,
Whose spirits rose, whose bodies fluttered down
Like those dead leaves, I wonder whereaway
Their uttered verses make melodious rhyme,
What harpist makes their merry holiday,
What golden bells allure with happy chime,
What flower-fair haunts are those wherein they stray?
Where live they now past earth and life and time?





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