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ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS As angels without wings we cast our thoughts on present, future, past. As scribes in progress we invoke The Muse Within--that Voice which spoke To heralds such as Moses, who Inscribed the Law for early Jew, And from whose Golden Tablets came The Ten Commandments in God's name. The Book of Modern Civil Law Stands firm today on what he saw While gazing at the bush that burned. Unto such Light our thoughts have turned As, with pens poised, our souls shall sing And, thus, unfold each angel wing. Amy Kitchener |
According to Amy Kitchener, this poem was originally hand-written by her father when he was courting her mother, Hattie, shortly after the turn on the 19th century. It was allegedly the only known poem her father, Cyrus (a philosophical wanderer and self-educated farmer), ever wrote. Its misspellings, poor punctuation and incorrect grammar have been corrected, and the title was changed from the original, which was "The Song of Cyrus." The refined version serves as the Signature Poem of Amy Kitchener's Angels Without Wings Foundation. |