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squashed under foot
brown fallen chestnut husks lay
stranded sea urchins

The autumn leaves sound familiar

Now the autumn leaves from the plane trees on the river banks flutter like dead butterflies into the smooth flowing Aude and are ferried downstream in colourful convoys to their end.