 How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly...  The Fairy Queen - Page 269by Edmund Spenser - 1758Full view - About this book
 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 340 pages
...want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivants. Against foul fiends, to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love, and nothing for reward ; 0 ! why should heavenly... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...5-14J. How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : O, why should heaveuly God... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 602 pages
...do they, with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiende to aid us, militant ! They for us fight : they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round abou't us plant. And all for love, and nothing for reward — 0 why should Heavenly... | |
 | Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 pages
...want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh ! why should heavenly... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1851 - 44 pages
...Spring's budding germs to find,— We'll pierce with Faith the clouds of Gloom, And see the sun behind ! " They for us fight, they watch, and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for Love, and nothing for Reward, O, why should heavenly GOD... | |
 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying poursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant 1 They for us fight, they watch, and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward ; Oh ! why should heavenly... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : O, why should Heavenly God... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...want I How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The fleeting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward I Oh 1 why should heavenly God to... | |
 | H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 pages
...want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward ; O, why should heavenly God... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight : they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant j And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh, why should heavenly... | |
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