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Autumn Rain

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The plane leaves     fall black and wet     on the lawn;     The cloud sheaves     in heaven's fields set     droop and are drawn     in falling seeds of rain;     the seed of heaven     on my face     falling - I hear again     like echoes even     that softly pace     Heaven's muffled floor,     the winds that tread     out all the grain     of tears, the store     harvested     in the sheaves of pain     caught up aloft:     the sheaves of dead     men that are slain     now winnowed soft     on the floor of heaven;     manna invisible     of all the pain     here to us given;     finely divisible     falling as rain.

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Exploring the themes of classic, D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards) delivers a powerful performance in "Autumn Rain"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

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