Rosemary and Pansies

<h2><SPAN name="FALLEN_LEAVES" id="FALLEN_LEAVES"></SPAN>FALLEN LEAVES</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Beneath the frost-stripped forest boughs, the drifted leaves are spread,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Vanished all summer’s green delight, all autumn’s glory fled.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet, gathering strength from that dead host, the tree in some far spring<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shall toward the skies a denser growth, a darker foliage fling.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Ah, if some power from us, long dead, should strengthen life to be,<br/></span> <span class="i0">We need not grieve to lie forgot, like sere leaves ’neath the tree!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_49" id="page_49">{49}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />