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Have you read in the Talmud of old	A
In the Legends the Rabbins have told	A
Of the limitless realms of the air	B
Have you read it the marvellous story	C
Of Sandalphon the Angel of Glory	C
Sandalphon the Angel of Prayer	B
	-
How erect at the outermost gates	D
Of the City Celestial he waits	D
With his feet on the ladder of light	E
That crowded with angels unnumbered	E
By Jacob was seen as he slumbered	E
Alone in the desert at night	E
	-
The Angels of Wind and of Fire	F
Chant only one hymn and expire	G
With the song's irresistible stress	H
Expire in their rapture and wonder	F
As harp strings are broken asunder	F
By music they throb to express	H
	-
But serene in the rapturous throng	I
Unmoved by the rush of the song	I
With eyes unimpassioned and slow	J
Among the dead angels the deathless	H
Sandalphon stands listening breathless	H
To sounds that ascend from below	J
	-
From the spirits on earth that adore	K
From the souls that entreat and implore	K
In the fervor and passion of prayer	B
From the hearts that are broken with losses	H
And weary with dragging the crosses	H
Too heavy for mortals to bear	B
	-
And he gathers the prayers as he stands	H
And they change into flowers in his hands	H
Into garlands of purple and red	E
And beneath the great arch of the portal	L
Through the streets of the City Immortal	L
Is wafted the fragrance they shed	E
	-
It is but a legend I know	J
A fable a phantom a show	J
Of the ancient Rabbinical lore	K
Yet the old mediaeval tradition	M
The beautiful strange superstition	M
But haunts me and holds me the more	K
	-
When I look from my window at night	E
And the welkin above is all white	E
All throbbing and panting with stars	H
Among them majestic is standing	N
Sandalphon the angel expanding	N
His pinions in nebulous bars	H
	-
And the legend I feel is a part	E
Of the hunger and thirst of the heart	E
The frenzy and fire of the brain	O
That grasps at the fruitage forbidden	M
The golden pomegranates of Eden	M
To quiet its fever and pain	O

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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