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Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality’s laws – poorly understood and applied – are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.
Constantine P. Cavafy
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Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,with the cross of Jesus going on before.Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;forward into battle see his banners go!

sabine baring-gould

— Lyrics to Onward, Christian Soldiers (1871).

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Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Tho'fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.

thomas gray

— 1757  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.1-4.

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When they were on that sea and had spread their sails and had their banners set high on the poops of the ships and their ensigns, it seemed indeed as if the sea were all a-tremble and all on fire with the ships they were sailing and the great joy they were making.


— 1203  Describing theVenetian fleet setting out.The Conquest of Constantinople (translated by E H McNeal,1936), p.42-3.

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In warlike pomp, with banners flowing,The regiments of autumn stood:I saw their gold and scarlet glowingFrom every hillside, every wood.

henry van dyke

— I, st. 1.

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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

john steinbeck

— Pt. 4 (Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962))

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Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.

thomas gray

— I, 1, Line 1.

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Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven, Where wide the storms their banners fling, And the tempest clouds are driven.

james gates percival

— James Gates Percival, To the Eagle.

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Hang out our banners on the outward walls.


— Act V, scene 5, line 1.

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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.


— John Steinbeck, pt. 4, Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

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Terrible as an army with banners.


— Song of Solomon, VI. 4 and 10.

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Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, They come. Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie Till famine and the ague eat them up. Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours, We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, And beat them backward home.


— Macbeth, Scene V

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Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!


— Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, lyrics to Onward, Christian Soldiers (1871).

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"Vexilla regis prodeunt inferniverso di noi; però dinanzi mira,"disse 'l maestro mio, "se tu 'l discerni." "The Royal banners are coming forth -- those of the master of hell --towards us now; so look ahead and see,"my master said, "whether you can discern him."

dante alighieri

— Canto XXXIV, lines 1-3.

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"‘The banners of the King of Hell Advance’ Closer to us," my master said; "so look Straight ahead and see if you can spot them."


— Inferno Canto 34, lines 1-3

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The combat deepens. On, ye brave,Who rush to glory or the grave!Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,And charge with all thy chivalry!

thomas campbell

— Hohenlinden, st. 7 (1802).

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Where his glowing eye?balls turn, Thousand banners round him burn. Where he points his purple spear, Hasty, hasty Rout is there, Marking with indignant eye Fear to stop and shame to fly. There Confusion, Terror's child, Conflict fierce and Ruin wild, Agony that pants for breath, Despair and honourable Death.

thomas gray

— "The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment", from Mr. Evans's Specimens of the Welch Poetry (1764).

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