| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Easter Song | | By George Herbert (1593–1633) |
| | | I GOT me flowers to strew Thy way, | |
| I got me boughs off many a tree; | |
| But Thou wast up by break of day, | |
| And brought’st Thy sweets along with Thee. | |
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| The sun arising in the East, | 5 |
| Though he give light and th’ East perfume, | |
| If they should offer to contest | |
| With Thy arising, they presume. | |
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| Can there be any day but this, | |
| Though many suns to shine endeavour? | 10 |
| We count three hundred, but we miss: | |
| There is but one, and that one ever. | | | | |
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