“With a fork drive Nature out,
She will ever yet return;
Hedge the flowerbed all about,
Pull or stab or cut or burn,
She will ever yet return.”

—  Robert Graves

"Marigolds".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)

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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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