Being with thy dear blood clean washed from sin,

May live for ever in felicity:

And that thy love we weighing worthily,

May likewise love Thee for the same again; 10

And for thy sake, that alllike dear didst buy,

With love may one another entertain.

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;

Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Edmund Spenser.

LXI
THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM.