Edmund Spenser - Amoretti: Sonnet 22 lyrics

This holy season fit to fast and pray, Men to devotion ought to be inclynd: therefore, I lykewise on so holy day, for my sweet Saynt some service fit will find. Her temple fayre is built within my mind, in which her glorious ymage placed is, on which my thoughts doo day and night attend lyke sacred priests that never thinke amisse. There I to her as th'author of my blisse, will builde an altar to appease her yre: and on the same my hart will sacrifise, burning in flames of pure and chast desyre: The which vouchsafe O goddesse to accept, amongst thy deerest relicks to be kept.