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First Line: God permits industrious angels / afternoons to play
Last Line: After playing crown!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 231;poem: 245


God permits industrious angels
Afternoons to play.
I met one, -- forgot my school-mates,
All, for him, straightway.
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God calls home the angels promptly
At the setting sun;
I missed mine. How dreary the marbles,
After playing Crown!




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