| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXVIII. Most glorious Lord of life! that, on this day | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | MOST glorious Lord of life! that, on this day, | |
| Did’st make thy triumph over death and sin; | |
| And, having harrow’d hell, did’st bring away | |
| Captivity thence captive, us to win: | |
| This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin; | 5 |
| And grant that we, for whom thou diddest die, | |
| Being with thy dear blood clean wash’d from sin, | |
| May live for ever in felicity! | |
| And that thy love we weighing worthily, | |
| May likewise love thee for the same again; | 10 |
| And for thy sake, that all like deer did’st buy, | |
| With love may one another entertain! | |
| So let us love, dear love, like as we ought: | |
| Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. | | | | |
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