| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | God Lyæus, Ever Young | | By John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| | | GOD 1 Lyæus, ever young, | |
| Ever honour’d, ever sung, | |
| Stain’d with blood of lusty grapes, | |
| In a thousand lusty shapes | |
| Dance upon the mazer’s brim, | 5 |
| In the crimson liquor swim; | |
| From thy plenteous hand divine | |
| Let a river run with wine: | |
| God of youth, let this day here | |
| Enter neither care nor fear. | 10 |
| | | Note 1. From The Tragedy of Valentinian, act. v. sc. 8, acted about 1616; printed 1647. Lyæus, an epithet of Bacchus. [back] | | |
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