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
| David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 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... | |
| Rule - Lord's prayer - 1885 - 240 pages
...name. Ps. civ. 4. His messengers bearing His will, and their glowing with the fire of Heavenly love. ' 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... | |
| C. E. Alexander - Religious poetry, English - 1886 - 346 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... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Bible - 1885 - 498 pages
...they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flving pursuivant, Against foul fiends to nld 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 rewnrd. Oh, why should heavenly... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 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 ; Û, why should heavenly... | |
| Quotations - 1887 - 458 pages
...want ! 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 about us plant ; And all for love, and nothing for reward. Oh, why should heavenly... | |
| George Dana Boardman - Christian biography - 1887 - 330 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 aud nothing for reward : Oh, why should Heavenly God... | |
| James Russell Lowell - English poetry - 1888 - 356 pages
...want ! 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 about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward ; O, why should heavenly God... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - Heaven - 1888 - 376 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... | |
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