Uttered a word that had a sound like death.
“Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A [♦]shaddow on those features fair and thin,
And slowly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in.
“Angels of life and death alike are His;
Without His leave, they pass no threshold o’er:
Who then would wish, or dare, believing this,
Against His messengers to shut the door?”
[♦] spelling not corrected: artifact of poem