AUTUMN LEAVES.
I now have culled from out Life’s forestThese Autumn Leaves which I shall send youThey have been pressed into serviceFor my little book.Perhaps if you the leaves had chosen,You would have culled more brilliant colors,And pressed them better too.By careful searching you may find oneThat pleases you by word, or measure,Andcherishede’en will be.I hope that you will take some pleasureIn reading book, and conning measure.Butkindlycriticise.I give my leaves into your keeping,I hope with love you will receive them,These offsprings of my heart.
I now have culled from out Life’s forestThese Autumn Leaves which I shall send youThey have been pressed into serviceFor my little book.Perhaps if you the leaves had chosen,You would have culled more brilliant colors,And pressed them better too.By careful searching you may find oneThat pleases you by word, or measure,Andcherishede’en will be.I hope that you will take some pleasureIn reading book, and conning measure.Butkindlycriticise.I give my leaves into your keeping,I hope with love you will receive them,These offsprings of my heart.