 | Walker Gwynne - Church year - 1915 - 143 pages
...Edmund Spenser writes: "How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us that succor want, How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us mill taut 1 They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851
...the river hall, one * How oft cio they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us. that sucenr want ! How oft do they, with golden pinions cleave...aid' us, militant! They for us fight ; they watch and dewly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant. And all for love, and nothing for reward... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Erik Gray - 288 pages
...doth embrace, That blessed Angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. How oft do they, their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want,6 How oft do they with golden pineons,7 cleave The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant,8 Against... | |
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