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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beggar And The Angel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An angel burdened with self-pity<br>Came out of heaven to a modern city.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He saw a beggar on the street,<br>Where the tides of traffic meet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pair of brass-bound hickory pegs<br>Brought him his pence instead of legs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A murky dog by him did lie,<br>Poodle, in part, his ancestry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angel stood and thought upon<br>This poodle-haunted beggar man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My life is grown a bore,' said he,<br>'One long round of sciamachy;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think I'll do a little good,<br>By way of change from angelhood.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He drew near to the beggar grim,<br>And gravely thus accosted him:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'How would you like, my friend, to fly<br>All day through the translucent sky;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To knock at the door of the red leaven,<br>And even to enter the orthodox heaven?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you would care to know this joy,<br>I will surrender my employ,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And take your ills, collect your pelf,<br>An humble beggar like yourself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ages you these joys may know,<br>While I shall suffer here below;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the end we both may gain<br>Access of pleasure from my pain.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stationary vagrant said,<br>'I do not mind, so go ahead.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angel told the heavenly charm,<br>He felt a wing on either arm;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Good-day,' he said, 'this floating's queer<br>If I should want to change next year--?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Pull out that feather!' the angel said,<br>'The one half black and the other half red.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cripple cried, 'Before you're through<br>You may get fagged, and if you do,--'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angel superciliously--<br>'My transformed friend, don't think of me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall be happy day and night,<br>In doing what I think is right.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So so,' the feathered beggar said,<br>'Good-bye, I am just overhead.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angel when he grasped the dish,<br>Began to criticize his wish.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seat was hard as granite rocks,<br>His real legs were in the box.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His knees were cramped, his shins were sore,<br>The lying pegs stuck out before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain he clinked the dish and whined.<br>The passers-by seemed deaf and blind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As pious looking as Saint Denis,<br>An urchin stole his catch-penny.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even the beggar's drab-fleeced poodle<br>Began to know him for a noodle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It has an uncelestial scent,<br>The clothing of this mendicant;'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cried, 'That trickling down my spine<br>Is anything but hyaline.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This day is like a thousand years:<br>I'd give an age of sighs and tears</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To see with his confectioned grin<br>One cherub sitting on his chin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That cripple was by far too sly--<br>I wish he'd tumble from the sky,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That things might be as they were before;<br>I really cannot stand much more!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beggar in the angel's guise,<br>Rose far above the smoky skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But being a beggar, never saw<br>The charm of the compelling law</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That turned the swinging universe:<br>'Twas gloomy as an empty purse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often with heaven in his head,<br>He blundered on a planet dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when with an immortal fuss,<br>He singed his wings at Sirius.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He plucked the feather with his teeth,<br>The charm was potent and beneath,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He saw the turmoil of the way<br>Grown wilder at the close of day,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the sad poodle, can in hand,<br>The angel still at the old stand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My friend,' said the angel, hemming and humming,<br>'Truly I thought you were never coming.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That's an unhandsome thing to say,<br>Seeing I've only been gone a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But there's nothing in all your brazen sky<br>To match the cock of that poodle's eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take your dish and give me my wings,<br>'Tis but a fair exchange of things.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beggar felt his garment's rot,<br>The horn ridge of each callous spot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He clinked his can and was content;<br>His poverty was permanent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Duncan+Campbell+Scott">Duncan Campbell Scott</a><div class=q>
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Came out of heaven to a modern city.

He saw a beggar on the street,
Where the tides of traffic meet.

A pair of brass-bound hickory pegs
Brought him his pence instead of legs.

A murky dog by him did lie,
Poodle, ..."></div>
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