<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Two Angels</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above:<br>The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was Love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Arise,' He said, 'my angels! a wail of woe and sin<br>Steals through the gates of heaven, and saddens all within.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My harps take up the mournful strain that from a lost world swells,<br>The smoke of torment clouds the light and blights the asphodels.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Fly downward to that under world, and on its souls of pain,<br>Let Love drop smiles like sunshine, and Pity tears like rain!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two faces bowed before the Throne, veiled in their golden hair;<br>Four white wings lessened swiftly down the dark abyss of air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The way was strange, the flight was long; at last the angels came<br>Where swung the lost and nether world, red-wrapped in rayless flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There Pity, shuddering, wept; but Love, with faith too strong for fear,<br>Took heart from God's almightiness and smiled a smile of cheer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And lo! that tear of Pity quenched the flame whereon it fell,<br>And, with the sunshine of that smile, hope entered into hell!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two unveiled faces full of joy looked upward to the Throne,<br>Four white wings folded at the feet of Him who sat thereon!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And deeper than the sound of seas, more soft than falling flake,<br>Amidst the hush of wing and song the Voice Eternal spake:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Welcome, my angels! ye have brought a holier joy to heaven;<br>Henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of sin forgiven!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420807" data-title="The Two Angels de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above: The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was Love. 'Arise,' He said, 'my angels! a wail of woe and sin Steals through the gates of heaven, and saddens all within. 'My harps take up the m..."></div> </div> </div>

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