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THE DIVINE VOICE	A
Go seek thine earth born sisters thus the Voice	A
That all obey the sad and silent three	B
These only while the hosts of Heaven rejoice	A
Smile never ask them what their sorrows be	B
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And when the secret of their griefs they tell	C
Look on them with thy mild half human eyes	D
Say what thou wast on earth thou knowest well	C
So shall they cease from unavailing sighs	D
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THE ANGEL	E
Why thus apart the swift winged herald spake	F
Sit ye with silent lips and unstrung lyres	D
While the trisagion's blending chords awake	F
In shouts of joy from all the heavenly choirs	D
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FIRST SPIRIT	G
Chide not thy sisters thus the answer came	H
Children of earth our half weaned nature clings	D
To earth's fond memories and her whispered name	H
Untunes our quivering lips our saddened strings	D
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For there we loved and where we love is home	I
Home that our feet may leave but not our hearts	D
Though o'er us shine the jasper lighted dome	I
The chain may lengthen but it never parts	D
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Sometimes a sunlit sphere comes rolling by	J
And then we softly whisper can it be	B
And leaning toward the silvery orb we try	J
To hear the music of its murmuring sea	B
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To catch perchance some flashing glimpse of green	K
Or breathe some wild wood fragrance wafted through	L
The opening gates of pearl that fold between	K
The blinding splendors and the changeless blue	L
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THE ANGEL	E
Nay sister nay a single healing leaf	M
Plucked from the bough of yon twelve fruited tree	B
Would soothe such anguish deeper stabbing grief	M
Has pierced thy throbbing heart	N
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THE FIRST SPIRIT	G
Ah woe is me I from my clinging babe was rudely torn	O
His tender lips a loveless bosom pressed	P
Can I forget him in my life new born	O
Oh that my darling lay upon my breast	P
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THE ANGEL	E
And thou	Q
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THE SECOND SPIRIT	G
I was a fair and youthful bride	R
The kiss of love still burns upon my cheek	S
He whom I worshipped ever at my side	R
Him through the spirit realm in vain I seek	S
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Sweet faces turn their beaming eyes on mine	T
Ah not in these the wished for look I read	U
Still for that one dear human smile I pine	T
Thou and none other is the lover's creed	V
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THE ANGEL	E
And whence thy sadness in a world of bliss	D
Where never parting comes nor mourner's tear	W
Art thou too dreaming of a mortal's kiss	D
Amid the seraphs of the heavenly sphere	X
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THE THIRD SPIRIT	G
Nay tax not me with passion's wasting fire	Y
When the swift message set my spirit free	B
Blind helpless lone I left my gray haired sire	Y
My friends were many he had none save me	B
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I left him orphaned in the starless night	Z
Alas for him no cheerful morning's dawn	A2
I wear the ransomed spirit's robe of white	Z
Yet still I hear him moaning She is gone	A2
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THE ANGEL	E
Ye know me not sweet sisters All in vain	B2
Ye seek your lost ones in the shapes they wore	C2
The flower once opened may not bud again	D2
The fruit once fallen finds the stem no more	C2
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Child lover sire yea all things loved below	E2
Fair pictures damasked on a vapor's fold	F2
Fade like the roseate flush the golden glow	E2
When the bright curtain of the day is rolled	F2
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I was the babe that slumbered on thy breast	P
And sister mine the lips that called thee bride	R
Mine were the silvered locks thy hand caressed	P
That faithful hand my faltering footstep's guide	R
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Each changing form frail vesture of decay	G2
The soul unclad forgets it once hath worn	O
Stained with the travel of the weary day	G2
And shamed with rents from every wayside	R
thorn	O
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To lie an infant in thy fond embrace	D
To come with love's warm kisses back to thee	B
To show thine eyes thy gray haired father's face	D
Not Heaven itself could grant this may not be	B
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Then spread your folded wings and leave to earth	H2
The dust once breathing ye have mourned so long	I2
Till Love new risen owns his heavenly birth	H2
And sorrow's discords sweeten into song	I2

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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