Poems (1898)/Immortal

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For other versions of this work, see Immortal (Coates, "Life is like a beauteous flower").
554394Poems (1898) — ImmortalFlorence Earle Coates

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.