- Easter
- by George Herbert
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/07/20
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- Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise
- Without delayes,
- Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
- With him mayst rise:
- That, as his death calcined1 thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more, just.
- Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
- With all thy art.
- The crosse taught all wood to resound his name,
- Who bore the same.
- His stretched sinews taught all strings, what key Is best to celebrate this most high day.
- Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song
- Pleasant and long:
- Or, since all musick is but three parts2 vied
- And multiplied,
- O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part, And make up our defects with his sweet art.
- I got me flowers to straw 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.
- The Sunne arising in the East, Though he give light, & th’ East perfume; If they should offer to contest With thy arising, they presume.
- Can there be any day but this, Though many sunnes to shine endeavour? We count three hundred, but we misse: There is but one, and that one ever.
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