 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
 | Edward Payson Tenney - Christian life - 1896 - 232 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 Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...want 1 How oft do they with golden pinions cleavr 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 pages
...145 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. 0 ! why should heavenly... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 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... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Harriet Bright Curry - English literature - 1897 - 412 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... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1898 - 204 pages
...pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant I 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... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English poetry - 1899 - 196 pages
...oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant (herald), 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... | |
 | Pauline W. Roose - 1900 - 294 pages
...pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant ! Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! 151 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... | |
 | S. J. C. - Angels - 1901 - 478 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 God... | |
 | Evan Daniel - English language - 1901 - 492 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 : 0, why | should Heaven |ly... | |
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