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Spenser

The document contains 3 poems by Edmund Spenser praising beauty and love. The first poem celebrates Christ's victory over death and sin. It calls to rejoice and love God and others. The second poem is about a man writing his love's name in the sand, but the waves wash it away. He writes it again but the tide erases it. The third poem describes a fair love through her golden hair, red cheeks, sparkling eyes, and wise words that flow from her "gate" of pearls and rubies.

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Spenser

The document contains 3 poems by Edmund Spenser praising beauty and love. The first poem celebrates Christ's victory over death and sin. It calls to rejoice and love God and others. The second poem is about a man writing his love's name in the sand, but the waves wash it away. He writes it again but the tide erases it. The third poem describes a fair love through her golden hair, red cheeks, sparkling eyes, and wise words that flow from her "gate" of pearls and rubies.

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"Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day" Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day Didst

make thy triumph over death and sin, And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win: This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin, And grant that we, for whom thou diddest die, Being with thy dear blood clean washed from sin, May live forever in felicity: And that thy love we weighing worthily, May likewise love thee for the same again; And for thy sake, that all like dear didst buy, May love with one another entertain. So let us love, dear love, like as we ought, Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. "One day I wrote her name upon the strand" One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing thus to immortalize! For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name; Where, when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. "Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs" Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark: Fair, when the rose in her red cheeks appears, Or in her eyes the fire of love does spark: Fair, when her breast, like a rich laden bark With precious merchandise she forth doth lay: Fair, when that cloud of pride, which oft doth dark Her goodly light, with smiles she drives away But fairest she, when so she doth display The gate with pearls and rubies richly dight, Through which her words so wise do make their way,

To bear the message of her gentle sprite. The rest be works of nature's wonderment, But this the work of heart's astonishment. 1

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