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Слушать(AI)When the Leaves Fall
EN the leaves fall off the trees Everybody walks on them :
Once they had a time of ease High above, and every breeze Used to stay and talk to them.
Then they were so debonair As they fluttered up and down ;
Dancing in the sunny air,
Dancing without knowing there Was a gutter in the town.
Now they have no place at all !
All the home that they can find Is a gutter by a wall,
And the wind that waits their fall Is an apache of a wind.
James Stephens
James Stephens (9 February 1880[1] – 26 December 1950) was an Irish novelist and poet.
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