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Dorothy Wordsworth

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One only leaf upon the top of a tree - the sole remaining leaf - danced round and round like a rag blown by the wind.
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March 7, 1798
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This was turned into Coleridge's Christabel, lines 48-50: There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can.

 
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