God Preserve Thy

Famous quotes containing the words god, preserve and/or thy:

“We that are bound by vows and by promotion,
With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,
To teach belief in good and still devotion,
To preach of heaven’s wonders and delights—
Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks,
He finds the God there far unlike his books.”
—Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”
—Alexander Smith (1830–1867)

“Close my beloved with me
in the smoke ring of thy power,
that we may be, each to the other,
figures of flame,
figures of smoke,
figures of flesh....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)