We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We can make a little form, and we gain composure.
-Robert Frost
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Good Enough
Leaf-Time
No more the withered summer-browns of death
Crumbling and sere upon the dry and crackling ground
Beneath a Rime of the Ancient Mariner sky -
Leaves in autumn colours are falling now
Pale greens, poor yellows, weak reds, but good enough
To decorate this time of early frosts
With appropriate merriment, good enough
To rake into playtime heaps for children and dogs
These modest scenes will attract no peepers this year
But I will send you a snap – it’s good enough!
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