Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I/Immortal

For works with similar titles, see Immortal.

For other versions of this work, see Immortal (Coates, "Life is like a beauteous flower").

Not to be confused with Immortal (Coates, "How living are the dead").

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IMMORTAL

LIFE is like a beauteous flower,  Closing to the world at even,— Closing for a dreamless hour,  To unfold, with dawn, on heaven. Life is like a bird that nests  Close to earth, no shelter scorning, Yet, upmounting from her breast,  Fills the skies with song at morning.