Explanation

It is quite all right that I

Should have traffic with the angels.

Shame upon you, three-fold fie

If you rise up to deny

That my visitants are angels!

Scorn upon you if you cry,

"Who is she to shelter angels?"

I am one who did not die

When the storm struck. That is why

I have such a right to angels.

It is written in the sky.

Margery Mansfield

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