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The leaves fall, fall as from far, / Like distant gardens withered in the heavens; / They fall with slow and lingering descent.
And in the nights the heavy Earth, too, falls / From out the stars into the Solitude.
Thus all doth fall. This hand of mine must fall / And lo! the other one: -- it is the law. / But there is One who holds this falling / Infinitely softly in His hands.