Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон)

Myfanwy Among the Leaves

Dying leaf and dead leaf,
Yellow leaf and red leaf
And white-backed beam,
Lay along the woodland road
As quiet as a dream.

Summer was over,
The year had lost her lover,
Spent with her grief
All along the woodland road
Leaf fell on leaf.

Then came a shuffling,
Such a happy ruffling
Of the dried sweet
Surf of leaves upon the road
Round a baby’s feet.

Year-old leaf ran after
Three-year-old laughter,
Danced through the air
As she caught them from the road
And flung them anywhere.

Old leaf and cold leaf,
Brown leaf and gold leaf
And white-backed beam,
Followed down the woodland road
Myfanwy in a dream.

1. Sonnets. 12. I hear love answer: Since within the mesh
2. Sonnets. 17. My Little Dream, My Momentary Dream
3. When You Say
4. Sonnets. 10. What is this anguish then that always stands
5. Poplars at Night

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