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(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
If you can keep your leaves when all about you
Are losing theirs, though you be doubting too;
If you can trust yourself through their disaster
And hold yours fast while theirs are falling faster;
If you’ll just wait and not be tired of waiting,
Endure the Fall and Winter’s cold berating,
Then in the end the world will see you’ve won –
They’ll know that you’re an evergreen, my son.
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photo by Scott Liddell at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mjQp1Bo/Autumn+Avenue
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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.
The Bard on the Hill 