William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Easter SongGeorge Herbert (15931633)
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I got me boughs off many a tree;
But Thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st Thy sweets along with Thee.
Though he give light and th’ East perfume,
If they should offer to contest
With Thy arising, they presume.
Though many suns to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we miss:
There is but one, and that one ever.