Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I/Natura Benigna

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Poems (1916) Volume I by Florence Earle Coates Natura Benigna

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Published as "Nature" in Mine and Thine' (1904).

NATURA BENIGNA

I WEAVE the beginning, I fashion the end; Life is my fellow, and Death is my friend;  Time cannot stay me,  Nor evil betray me,— They that would harm me, unknowing, defend. I ravel asunder, I knit every flaw; Blossoms I scatter, with tempests I awe;  Birthplace of duty,  And shrine of all beauty,— Firmly I govern, and love is my law!