“In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till wildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies,
The angels with us unawares.”

— Gerald Massey

Babe Cristabel, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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British poet 1828–1907

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