The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, p.251
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