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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

John Fletcher (1579–1625)

Song to Bacchus: ‘God Lyæus, ever young’ (from Valentinian)

GOD Lyæus, ever young,

Ever renown’d, ever sung;

Stain’d 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.