High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Of Angels and Angles" is a track by The Decemberists off their album Picaresque. Its title is likely an allusion to the phrase Non Angli, sed Angeli. ("Not Angles, but Angels.") In legend, this was a Latin pun allegedly said by Pope Gregory I after a response to his query regarding the identity of a group of fair-haired Anglian children whom he had observed in the marketplace.