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ANGELS by GERTRUDE HALL

First Line: HOW SHALL WE TELL AN ANGEL
Last Line: "WHOM THOU CALL'ST FOOL."
Subject(s): ANGELS;
How shall we tell an angel
From another guest?
How, from the common worldly herd,
One of the blest?

Hint of suppressed halo,
Rustle of hidden wings,
Wafture of heavenly frankincense, --
Which of these things?

The old Sphinx smiles so subtly:
"I give no golden rule, --
Yet would I warn thee, World: treat well
Whom thou call'st fool."



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