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The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott

Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes

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CHANT.

[The angels are our brothers]

The angels are our brothers;
Let us like them become,
And emulate in beauty
The first-born of our home:
Lord! we are thine, and they are thine:
In rescued Eden, let us twine
With mortal virtues love divine,
And be earth's angels!