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Yes, 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)
Yes, let the Angel blow! A peal from the parted heaven, The first of seven!— The warning, not yet the sign, of woe! That men arise And look about them with wakened eyes, Behold on their garments the dust and slime, Refrain, forbear, Accept the weight of a nobler care And take reproach from the fallen time!
— Bayard Taylor
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