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An angel burdened with self pity	A
Came out of heaven to a modern city	A
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He saw a beggar on the street	B
Where the tides of traffic meet	B
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A pair of brass bound hickory pegs	C
Brought him his pence instead of legs	C
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A murky dog by him did lie	D
Poodle in part his ancestry	A
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The angel stood and thought upon	E
This poodle haunted beggar man	F
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'My life is grown a bore ' said he	A
'One long round of sciamachy	G
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I think I'll do a little good	H
By way of change from angelhood '	-
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He drew near to the beggar grim	I
And gravely thus accosted him	I
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'How would you like my friend to fly	D
All day through the translucent sky	D
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To knock at the door of the red leaven	J
And even to enter the orthodox heaven	J
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If you would care to know this joy	K
I will surrender my employ	K
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And take your ills collect your pelf	L
An humble beggar like yourself	L
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For ages you these joys may know	M
While I shall suffer here below	M
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And in the end we both may gain	N
Access of pleasure from my pain '	-
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The stationary vagrant said	O
'I do not mind so go ahead '	-
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The angel told the heavenly charm	P
He felt a wing on either arm	P
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'Good day ' he said 'this floating's queer	Q
If I should want to change next year '	-
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'Pull out that feather ' the angel said	O
'The one half black and the other half red '	-
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The cripple cried 'Before you're through	R
You may get fagged and if you do '	-
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The angel superciliously	M
'My transformed friend don't think of me	A
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I shall be happy day and night	S
In doing what I think is right '	-
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'So so ' the feathered beggar said	O
'Good bye I am just overhead '	-
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The angel when he grasped the dish	G
Began to criticize his wish	G
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The seat was hard as granite rocks	T
His real legs were in the box	T
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His knees were cramped his shins were sore	U
The lying pegs stuck out before	U
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In vain he clinked the dish and whined	O
The passers by seemed deaf and blind	O
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As pious looking as Saint Denis	V
An urchin stole his catch penny	A
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And even the beggar's drab fleeced poodle	M
Began to know him for a noodle	M
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'It has an uncelestial scent	O
The clothing of this mendicant '	-
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He cried 'That trickling down my spine	W
Is anything but hyaline	W
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This day is like a thousand years	X
I'd give an age of sighs and tears	Y
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To see with his confectioned grin	W
One cherub sitting on his chin	W
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That cripple was by far too sly	M
I wish he'd tumble from the sky	M
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That things might be as they were before	U
I really cannot stand much more '	-
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The beggar in the angel's guise	Z
Rose far above the smoky skies	Z
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But being a beggar never saw	A2
The charm of the compelling law	A2
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That turned the swinging universe	B2
'Twas gloomy as an empty purse	B2
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Often with heaven in his head	O
He blundered on a planet dead	O
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And when with an immortal fuss	C2
He singed his wings at Sirius	C2
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He plucked the feather with his teeth	D2
The charm was potent and beneath	D2
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He saw the turmoil of the way	E2
Grown wilder at the close of day	E2
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With the sad poodle can in hand	O
The angel still at the old stand	O
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'My friend ' said the angel hemming and humming	F2
'Truly I thought you were never coming '	-
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'That's an unhandsome thing to say	E2
Seeing I've only been gone a day	E2
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But there's nothing in all your brazen sky	M
To match the cock of that poodle's eye	M
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Take your dish and give me my wings	C2
'Tis but a fair exchange of things '	-
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The beggar felt his garment's rot	O
The horn ridge of each callous spot	O
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He clinked his can and was content	O
His poverty was permanent	O

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