Sonnet 68 - Edmund Spenser

Spenser used intentionally archaic wording at times, which is (I believe) why his spelling is not generally modernized like that of most early modern poets.  Anyhow, here is another Easter poem!

Sonnet 68

Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day,
  Didst make thy triumph over death and sin:
  and having harrowd hell didst bring away,
  captivity thence captive us to win.
This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin,
  and grant that we for whom thou diddest dye
  being with thy deare blood clene washt from sin,
  may live forever in felicity.
And that thy love we weighing worthily,
  may likewise love thee for the same againe:
  and for thy sake that all lyke deare didst buy,
  with love may one another entertayne.
So let us love, deare love, lyke as we ought,
  love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.