From “Paradise Lost,” Book VI.
THE ARRAY
                    NOW went forth the morn,
Such as in highest heaven, arrayed in gold
Empyreal; from before her vanished night,
Shot through with orient beams; when all the plain
Covered with thick embattled...

Poet: John Milton

Anonymous translation from the German

FEAR not, O little flock! the foe
Who madly seeks your overthrow,
    Dread not his rage and power;
What though your courage sometimes faints?
His seeming triumph o’er God’s saints
    Lasts but a little hour...