A Handy Guide for Beggars: Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity / Being Sundry Explorations, Made While Afoot and Penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These Adventures Convey and Illustrate the Rules of Beggary for Poets and Some Others.

Chapter 63: THAT MEN MIGHT SEE AGAIN THE ANGEL-THRONG

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A series of episodic travel sketches and lyrical interludes records the narrator's afoot wanderings through Southern and Eastern states, combining practical rules for itinerant poets with vivid vignettes of hospitality, rejection, and small-town characters. Anecdotes range from freight-ride adventures and mountain baths to encounters with moonshiners and kindly householders, set amid reflections on voluntary poverty, artistic devotion, and the Gospel of Beauty. Interspersed poems and allegorical passages punctuate the narrative, offering both comic episodes and earnest meditations on artistic pilgrimage and the ethics of begging.

THAT MEN MIGHT SEE AGAIN THE
ANGEL-THRONG

Would we were blind with Milton, and we sang

With him of uttermost Heaven in a new song,

That men might see again the angel-throng,

And newborn hopes, true to this age would rise,

Pictures to make men weep for paradise,

All glorious things beyond the defeated grave.

God smite us blind, and give us bolder wings;

God help us to be brave.

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