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Dead Leaves

by Georgia Douglas Johnson

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The breaking dead leaves ’neath my feet A plaintive melody repeat, Recalling shattered hopes that lie As relics of a bygone sky.

Again I thread the mazy past, Back where the mounds are scattered fast⁠— Oh! foolish tears, why do you start, To break of dead leaves in the heart?

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