 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
 | 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 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... | |
 | John Worrell Northrop - New York (State) - 1904 - 236 pages
...delight; a joyous confidence. Spencer wrote of angels — "They come to succor us, who succor want, 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." Milton expressed similar... | |
 | 1865 - 608 pages
...want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying poursivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their round squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : Oh, why should Heavenly... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1865 - 1020 pages
...want ! How oft do t Wry with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch, they duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Baptists - 1907 - 1218 pages
...want I 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 God... | |
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