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There is a coal black Angel	A
With a thick Afric lip	B
And he dwells like the hunted and harried	C
In a swamp where the green frogs dip	B
But his face is against a City	D
Which is over a bay of the sea	D
And he breathes with a breath that is	E
blastment	D
And dooms by a far decree	D
	-
By night there is fear in the City	D
Through the darkness a star soareth on	F
There's a scream that screams up to the zenith	G
Then the poise of a meteor lone	H
Lighting far the pale fright of the faces	I
And downward the coming is seen	J
Then the rush and the burst and the havoc	K
And wails and shrieks between	J
	-
It comes like the thief in the gloaming	L
It comes and none may foretell	M
The place of the coming the glaring	L
They live in a sleepless spell	M
That wizens and withers and whitens	I
It ages the young and the bloom	N
Of the maiden is ashes of roses	I
The Swamp Angel broods in his gloom	N
	-
Swift is his messengers' going	L
But slowly he saps their halls	I
As if by delay deluding	L
They move from their crumbling walls	I
Farther and farther away	O
But the Angel sends after and after	P
By night with the flame of his ray	O
By night with the voice of his screaming	L
Sends after them stone by stone	H
And farther walls fall farther portals	I
And weed follows weed through the Town	Q
	-
Is this the proud City the scorner	O
Which never would yield the ground	D
Which mocked at the coal black Angel	A
The cup of despair goes round	D
Vainly he calls upon Michael	A
The white man's seraph was he	D
For Michael has fled from his tower	O
To the Angel over the sea	D
Who weeps for the woeful City	D
Let him weep for our guilty kind	D
Who joys at her wild despairing	L
Christ the Forgiver convert his mind	D

Herman Melville

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