I Sat Among the Green Leaves
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
1883 to 1922
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I sat among the green leaves, and heard the ______ falling,
The blood-red butterflies were gold against the sun,
But in between the silence and the sweet birds ______
The nuts fell one by one.
Why should ______ fall and the year but half over?
Why ______ sorrow seek me and I so young and kind?
______ leaf is on the bough and the dew is ______ the clover,
But the green nuts are falling ______ the wind.
Oh, I gave my lips away and ______ my soul behind them.
Why should trouble follow ______ the quick tears start?
The little birds may love ______ fly with only God to mind them,
But ______ green nuts are falling on my heart.