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Bell, H. T. MacKenzie: Old Year Leaves - ZaunköniG - 08.07.2007 Old Year Leaves The leaves which in the autumn of the year Fall auburn-tinted, leaving reft and bare Their parent trees, in many a sheltered lair Where Winter waits and watches, cold, austere, Will lie in drifts; and when the snowdrops cheer The woodland shadows, still the leaves are there, Though through the glades the balmy southern air And birds and boughs proclaim that Spring is here. So lost hopes severed by the stress of life Lie all unburied yet before our eyes, Though none but we regard their mute decay; And ever amid this stir and moil and strife Fresh aims and growing purposes arise Above the faded hopes of yesterday. |