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Show To My Good Friends In Cedar City "Magisterial Autumn" (May Weight Johnson "Mrs. Harold Johnson") Trees will soon lift naked branches to a sullen kky, Willie within a miraculous chemistry Is preparing next year's leaves. Autumn transfigures the earth, Making magical and transcendent beauty. Stray gusts of wind send dead leaves whirling, And tall grasses stir by the road sides. Swatches of color spot the landscape Beneath a tired sun. It Is the cool of the years early evening, But written into the season la the promise of spring . . . A rebirth, a new beginning, as fresh and triumphant, As if there had been no ending. Life Is like that .... It sustains, There are miracles In It, In It's beginning and It's ending; Within it's strange and endless cycle, It builds upon death. Victory builds upon defeat, The beauty In it outweighs the terror. As Autumn transforms, the miracle rings true. The flaming fall UfU the spirit; The death that comes, Is only another aspect of life In the gtntle rustle of falling. |