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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Song: ‘God Lyæus, ever young’
By John Fletcher (1579–1625)
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Ever honored, ever sung,
Stained with blood of lusty grapes,
In a thousand lusty shapes,
Dance upon the mazer’s brim,
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!