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- URL: https://joshualore.com/inthemiddleway/he-will-come-like-last-leafs-fall-one-night/
- Published: 2015-12-05T00:02:17.000Z
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> “He will come like last leaf’s fall.  
> One night when the November wind  
> has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth  
> wakes choking on the mould,  
> the soft shroud’s folding.  
>  
> He will come like frost.  
> One morning when the shrinking earth  
> opens on mist, to find itself  
> arrested in the net  
> of alien, sword-set beauty.  
>  
> He will come like dark.  
> One evening when the bursting red  
> December sun draws up the sheet  
> and penny-masks its eye to yield  
> the star-snowed fields of sky.  
>  
> He will come, will come,  
> will come like crying in the night,  
> like blood, like breaking,  
> as the earth writhes to toss him free.  
> He will come like child.

Rowan Williams, ‘Advent Calendar’