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Poem: “Angel of Peace” by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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American Literature – American Poetry – Oliver Wendell Holmes – Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
< < < To H. W. Longfellow
Poem at the Dedication of the Halleck Monument > > >

Angel of Peace

  1. Angel of peace thou hast wandered too long;
    Spread thy white wings to the sunshine of love!
    Come while our voices are blended in song,
    Fly to our ark like the storm-beaten dove,—
    Fly to our ark on the wings of the dove,
    Speed o’er the far-sounding billows of song,
    Crowned with the olive-leaf garland of love;
    Angel of peace, thou hast waited to long!
  2. Brothers we meet on this altar of thine,
    Mingling the gifts we have gathered for thee ;
    Sweet with the odors of myrtle and pine,
    Breeze of the prairie and breath of the sea,—
    Meadow and mountain and forest and sea;
    Sweet is the fragrance of myrtle and pine
    Sweet the incense we offer to thee ;
    Brothers once more round this altar of thine!
  3. Angels of Bethlehem, answer the strain!
    Hark! a new birth-song is filling the sky
    Loud as the storm-wind that tumbles the main,
    Bid the full breath of the organ reply,—
    Loud let the tempest of voices reply;
    Roll its long surge like the earth shaking main!
    Swell the vast song till it mounts to the sky!
    Angels of Bethlehem, eecho the strain! Amen

Angel of peace

< < < To H. W. Longfellow
Poem at the Dedication of the Halleck Monument > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Oliver Wendell Holmes – Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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