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[♦] ‘from’ replaced with ‘form’

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GUARDIAN ANGELS.

(FROM “THE SINLESS CHILD.”)

ITH downy pinion they enfold

The heart surcharged with wo,

And fan with balmy wing the eye

Whence floods of sorrow flow;

They bear, in golden censers up,