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| AUTUMN  RAIN by DH Lawrence
 
 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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