| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Robert Stephen Hawker. 1804–1875 |
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| 675. Are they not all Ministering Spirits? |
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| WE see them not—we cannot hear | |
| The music of their wing— | |
| Yet know we that they sojourn near, | |
| The Angels of the spring! | |
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| They glide along this lovely ground | 5 |
| When the first violet grows; | |
| Their graceful hands have just unbound | |
| The zone of yonder rose. | |
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| I gather it for thy dear breast, | |
| From stain and shadow free: | 10 |
| That which an Angel's touch hath blest | |
| Is meet, my love, for thee! | |
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