  "I want to be an angel and with the angels stand," So loudly sang the children in our church mission band, But as I chanted with them this lovely little strain I wished to ask the teacher if she could quite explain Why all the angel pictures are painted with light hair, And blue eyes soft and tender and skin so very fair, While half the little children and grown-up people, too, Have hair and eyes and even skin of very darkest hue? And as I have such dark brown eyes and also dark brown hair, Most naturally I feel quite sad to learn that only fair And blue-eyed little children can ever angels be, |
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