"Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. Surrounding the throne on each of its sides, were four living creatures covered with eyes in front and behind. The first one looked like a lion; the second looked like a bull; the third had a face like a human face; and the fourth looked like an eagle in flight. Each one of the four living creatures had six wings, and they were covered with eyes, inside and out. Day and night they never stop singing:
"'Holy, holy, holy is the God almighty, who was, who is, and who is to come.'
"The four living creatures sing songs of glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever. When they do so, the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever."
The exact quote is from my "Good News Bible", which is not in the old dialect.
"Happy hearts and happy faces
"Happy play in grassy places
"That was how in ancient ages
"Children grew to kings and sages."
"Belz seigner, eu no us quier al mas que fos tant coveitos d'agesta cum sui de vos..."
"For lusty love is born... for which my body years"
"Love wants a knight for a lover good with his weapons and sweet-tongued. A lady who lies with a man like that is clean of all her sins."
This is a reference to the wonderful book Lolita by Nabokov. It is about a sensitive pedifile named Humbert Humbert and his young daughter-in-law and lover, whom he knicknamed "Lolita."