Celebrating the changing seasons: A Leaf Treader

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- In celebration of the changing seasons, photojournalist Dave Wertheimer joined former Wisconsin poet laureate Margaret Rozga to share a reading of Robert Frost's 1937 poem, A Leaf Treader:
I have been treading on leaves all day until I am autumn-tired.
God knows all the color and form of leaves I have trodden on and mired.
Perhaps I have put forth too much strength and been too fierce from fear.
I have safely trodden underfoot the leaves of another year.
All summer long they were over head, more lifted up than I.
To come to their final place in earth they had to pass me by.
All summer long I thought I heard them threatening under their breath.
And when they came it seemed with a will to carry me with them to death.
They spoke to the fugitive in my heart as if it were leaf to leaf.
They tapped at my eyelids and touched my lips with an invitation to grief.
But it was no reason I had to go because they had to go.
Now up my knee to keep on top of another year of snow.