MOst glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day, <br />Didst make thy triumph ouer death and sin: <br />and hauing harrowd hell didst bring away, <br />captiuity thence captiue vs to win. <br />This ioyous day, deare Lord, with ioy begin, <br />and grant that we for whom thou didest dye <br />being with thy deare blood clene washt from sin, <br />may liue for euer in felicity. <br />And that thy loue we weighing worthily, <br />may likewise loue thee for the same againe: <br />and for thy sake that all lyke deare didst buy, <br />with loue may one another entertayne. <br />So let vs loue, deare loue, lyke as we ought, <br />loue is the lesson which the Lord vs taught.<br /><br />Edmund Spenser<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-lxviii/
