| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Most Glorious Lord of Life, That on This Day | | By Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | MOST glorious Lord of Life, that on this day | |
| Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin, | |
| And having harrow’d hell, didst 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 dear didst 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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