“One only leaf upon the top of a tree - the sole remaining leaf - danced round and round like a rag blown by the wind.”

March 7, 1798
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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English author, poet and diarist 1771–1855

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