Two or three angels

Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within.

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Naturalist novelist and poet, author of The Red Badge of Courage, known for stark, imagistic verse.

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