And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.592, Hackett Publishing
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.