 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
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1925 - 470 pages
...pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, 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 — , O why should heavenly... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1927 - 830 pages
...want ! How oft do they with shining pinions cleave The flirting 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 644 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 dewly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant. And all for love, and nothing for reward... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...' 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, men 1 : in the countenance of whose nature, looking down- BOOK I. ward,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - History - 2000 - 808 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 hright squadrons round about us plant. And all for love and nothing for reward; Oh! why should heavenly... | |
 | Benjamin Woolley - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 380 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 love... | |
 | Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 894 pages
..."and all for love and nothing for reward" (Book 2, canto 8, stanza 75). The passage refers to angels: 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... | |
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