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Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o’er celestial mountains winged in flight; And men are angels loaded for an hour, Who wade the miry vale, and climb with pain, And slippery step, the bottom of the steep. Angels their failings, mortals have their praise; While here, of corps ethereal, such enrolled, And summoned to the glorious standard soon, Which flames eternal crimson through the skies. Nor are our brothers thoughtless of their kin, Yet absent but not absent from their love. Michael has fought our battles; Raphael sung Our triumphs; Gabriel on our errands flown, Sent by the Sovereign; and are these, O man! Thy friends and warm allies, and thou (shame burn Thy cheek to cinder!) rival to the brutes!
Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o’er celestial mountains winged in flight; And men are angels loaded for an hour, Who wade the miry vale, and climb with pain, And slippery step, the bottom of the steep. Angels their failings, mortals have their praise; While here, of corps ethereal, such enrolled, And summoned to the glorious standard soon, Which flames eternal crimson through the skies. Nor are our brothers thoughtless of their kin, Yet absent but not absent from their love. Michael has fought our battles; Raphael sung Our triumphs; Gabriel on our errands flown, Sent by the Sovereign; and are these, O man! Thy friends and warm allies, and thou (shame burn Thy cheek to cinder!) rival to the brutes!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 29 · printed citation: Young · subject: ANGELS
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