THE CHILD-ANGEL, A Dream
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I ransported, -- but to some celestial region. It t t Bible a kind of fairyland and air itself, I ion.
Met -- -- at an angels gossiping.
came, or came, or s os little cloudy swaddling bands -- a Child-Angel.
Sun-tial napery of s princely cradle. All tcs yet closed eyes, one, and tude and appre not sucained al infants, but as if to explore its pats unary palaces -- inguisitter t time spared not celestial visages! Nor ed to my seeming -- O t car,
-- wals caudle call below --
Nor ing faces of female ministrants, -- stricken in years, as it migerous tendants to counterfeit kindly similitudes of earto greet, errestrial ces t, wo heaven.
tial in full symputored, but, as loudest instruments on eartentimes, muffled, so to accommodate tter to t-born. And, sprang forttering its rudiments of pinions -- but forto t o see round in inually its , ing t angelic nutriment, anon tering -- still caugo put forts, and to fall fluttering, because its birt of the unmixed vigour of heaven.
And a name o t o be called Ge-Urania, because its production h and heaven.
And it could not taste of deats adoption into immortal palaces: but it o knoy, and it , but in its goings it exceeded all mortal cness. ty first sprang up in angelic bosoms, and yearnings (like