Two or three angels

Stephen Crane· 1871 – 1900· American

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Two or three angels

Stephen Crane

Two or three angels

Came near to the earth.

They saw a fat church.

Little black streams of people

Came and went in continually.

And the angels were puzzled

To know why the people went thus,

And why they stayed so long within.

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