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"A Lost Angel" from National Magazine
by Ellis Parker Butler


from National Magazine
A Lost Angel
by Ellis Parker Butler

When first we met she seemed so white
        I feared her;
As one might near a spirit bright
        I neared her;
An angel pure from heaven above
        I dreamed her,
And far too good for human love
        I deemed her.
A spirit free from mortal taint
        I thought her,
And incense as unto a saint
        I brought her.

Well, incense burning did not seem
        To please her,
And insolence I feared she'd deem
        To squeeze her;
Nor did I dare for that same why
        To kiss her,
Lest, shocked, she'd cause my eager eye
        To miss her.
I sickened thinking of some way
        To win her,
When lo! she asked me, one fine day,
        To dinner!

Twas thus that made of common flesh
        I found her,
And in a mortal lover's mesh
        I wound her.
Embraces, kisses, loving looks
        I gave her,
And buying bon-bons, flowers and books,
        I save her;
For her few honest, human taints
        I love her,
Nor would I change for all the saints
        Above her
Those eyes, that little face, that so
        Endear her,
And all the human joy I know
        When near her;
And I am glad, when to my breast
        I press her,
She's just a woman, like the rest,
        God bless her!




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