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Once let the Angel blow! —
Quote byBayard Taylor · 1825–1878
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617..
English (original)
Once let the Angel blow! — A peal from the parted heaven, The first of seven! For the time is come that was foretold So long ago! As the avalanche gathers, huge and cold, From the down of the harmless snow, The years and the ages gather and hang Till the day when the word is spoken: When they that dwell in the end of time Are smitten alike for the early crime, As the vials of wrath are broken!
— Bayard Taylor
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