Das Schicksal waltet im Naturgebiete,
Und die Natur geht schweigend ihren Pfad,
Nährt hier ein Giftgewächs und eine Frevelthat,
Bricht dort ein Engelherz und eine zarte Blüte.

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• by Christoph August Tiedge (1752 - 1841), no title, appears in Urania, in Fünfter Gesang (Tugend) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765 - 1814), "Das Schicksal waltet im Naturgebiete", 1814, published 1880, from Gesänge aus Tiedge's Urania, no. 14.
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