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VEILED ANGELS.
Unnumbered blessings, rich and free,
Have come to us, our God, from Thee.
Have come to us, our God, from Thee.
Some came with open faces bright
Aglow with heaven's own living light.
Aglow with heaven's own living light.
And some were veiled, trod soft and slow
And spoke in voices grave and low.
And spoke in voices grave and low.
Veiled angels, pardon! if with fears
We met you first, and many tears.
We met you first, and many tears.
We take you to our hearts no less;
We know ye come to teach and bless.
We know ye come to teach and bless.
We know the Love from which ye come;
We trace you to our Father's Home.
We trace you to our Father's Home.
We know how radiant and how kind
Your faces are, those veils behind.
Your faces are, those veils behind.
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We know those veils, one happy day,
In earth, or heaven shall drop away;
In earth, or heaven shall drop away;
And we shall see you as ye are,
And learn why thus ye sped from far.
And learn why thus ye sped from far.
But what the joy that day shall be
We know not yet; we wait to see.
We know not yet; we wait to see.
For this, O angels, well we know,
The way ye came, our souls shall go;
The way ye came, our souls shall go;
Up to the Love from which ye come;
Back to our Father's blessed Home.
Back to our Father's blessed Home.
And bright each face unveiled shall shine,
Lord! when the veil is rent from Thine!
Lord! when the veil is rent from Thine!
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