"The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing."
— William Wordsworth

January 1, 1970

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MysticsRomantic poetsPoets from EnglandPoets laureateAnglicans from the United Kingdom
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Part III, No. 5 — Walton's Book of Lives. Compare: "The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing / Made of a quill from an angel's wing", Henry Constable, Sonnet; "Whose noble praise / Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing", Dorothy Berry, Sonnet