The damps of autumn sink into the leaves, and prepare them for their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, by the gentle pressure of sorrows, being prepared to be laid in the dust.
As autumn quietly prepares leaves to fall, life's sorrows gently prepare us for death.
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