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Part One

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!

Gabriel blew, and a clean, thin sound of perfect pitch and crystalline delicacy filled all the universe to the farthest star. As it sounded, there was a tiny moment of stasis as thin as the line separating past from future, and then the fabric of the worlds collapsed upon itself...The Last Trump had sounded.

ISAAC ASIMOV

AN ANGEL CAN ILLUMINE THE THOUGHT
AND MIND OF MAN BY STRENGTHENING
THE POWER OF VISION, AND BY BRINGING
WITHIN HIS REACH SOME TRUTH WHICH
THE ANGEL HIMSELF CONTEMPLATES.

ST.THOMAS AQUINAS

Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee
All through the night.
Guardian angels God will send thee
All through the night.

Harold Boulton

And now were these two men, as 'twere, in Heaven...Being swallowed up with the sight of angels, and with hearing of their melodious notes.

John Bunyon

My delight and thy delight

Walking, like two angels white,

In the gardens of the night.


Robert Bridges

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land;

you may almost hear the beating of his wings.


John Bright

The Angels were all singing out of tune,
And hoarse with having little else to do,
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon
Or curb a runaway young star or two.


Lord Byron

Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbeloving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past--
Oh, never call it loving!

Robert Browning

I want to be an angel,
And with the angels stand
A crown upon my forehead,
A harp within my hand.

Urania Locke Bailey

Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be.



John Donne

We trust in plumed procession

For such the angels go--

Rank after Rank, with even feet--

And uniforms of Snow.



Emily Dickinson

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him.
That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Meister Eckhart

And now it is an angel's song,
That makes the heavens be mute.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Maybe other angels have dropped into other Elm Street backyards? Behind fences, did neighbors help earlier hurt ones?
Folks keep so much of the best stuff quiet, don't they.

Allan Gurganus

AND THE ANGEL ISRAFEL,
WHOSE HEART-STRINGS ARE A LUTE,
AND WHO HAS THE SWEETEST VOICE
OF ALL GOD'S CREATURES.

THE KORAN

Don't you hear those bells a-ringing?

Don't you hear the angels singing

And it's glory, hallelujah! Jubilee!


"Ring Those Golden Bells"

No wise men come, no shepherds in the field;
Still, angels tend the mother's every need.

Carl Japikse

Laughter is a melody,

a concert from the heart,

a tickling by the angels,

creative living art.



Serene West

A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

Richard Crashaw

Be not forgetful to entertain

strangers,

for thereby some have entertained

angels unawares.


Hebrews 13:2

Gratitude is the language of the angels.

N. N. Evans

For sure they did not seem
To be begot of any earthly seed,
But rather angels, or of angels' breed

Edmund Spenser

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit: for, without being seen, they are present with you.

St. Francis de Sales

Angels descending, bringing from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Fanny J. Crosby

ANGELS FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY,

WING YOUR FLIGHT O'ER ALL THE EARTH

Like living flame their faces seemed to glow,

Their wings were gold. And all their bodies shone

more dazzling white than any earthly show.


Dante

Look homeward Angel now,
and melt with ruth


John Milton

Angels can fly because
they take themselves lightly.

G.K.Chesterton

None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel
And the giddy stars (so legends tell)
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute


Edgar Allen Poe

The Angels' Bread is made
The Bread of man today.

Thomas Aquinas

It is not because angels are holier
than men or devils that makes them angels,
but because they do not expect holiness
from one another, but from God alone.

William Blake

The angels laughed.
God looked down from his seventh heaven and smiled.
The angels spread their wings and, together with Elijah,
flew upward into the sky.


Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is not known precisely
where angels dwell--
whether in the air, the void,
or the planets.
It has not been
God's pleasure
that we should be informed
of their abode.


Voltaire

Bless the Lord, ye his angels,
that excel in strength,
that do his commandments,
hearkening unto
the voice of his word.


Psalms 103:20

Good-night, sweet prince,
and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Shakespeare

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies?
And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:
I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror,
Which we are just able to endure,
And we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying.


Rainer Maria Rilke

An angel; or, if not,

An earthly paragon.


Shakespeare

For it is not the shape,

but their use,

that makes them angels.

THOMAS HOBBES

Angels, we have heard on high sweetly singing
o'er the plains

And the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains,

Gloria! Gloria! Gloria!

I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.

John Donne

Every blade of grass

has an angel

bending over it

saying, "Grow, grow."


THE TALMUD

I have seen a thousand times that angels are human forms, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Emanuel Swedenborg

O, come, angel band,
Come and around me stand,
O, bear me away on your snow white wings,
To my immortal home.


traditional

He rained down manna also upon them for to eat:
and gave them food from heaven.
So man did eat angels' food: for he sent them meat enough.


Prayer Book 1662

An angel throng, bewinged, bedight

In veils, and drowned in tears,

Sit in a theatre, to see

A play of hopes and fears


Edgar Allan Poe

How many angels are there?
One -- who transforms our life --
is plenty.


UNKNOWN

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