William Alabaster - "The night, the starless night of pa**ion" lyrics

The night, the starless night of pa**ion From heaven began, on heaven beneath to fall, When Christ did sound the onset martial, A sacred hymn, upon his foes to run; That with the fiery contemplation Of love and joy, his soul and senses all Surcharged might not dread the bitter thrall Of pain and grief and torments all in one. Then since my holy vows have undertook To take the portrait of Christ's d**h in me, Then let my love with sonnets fill this book, With hymns to give the onset as did he; That thoughts inflamèd with such heavenly muse The coldest ice of fire may not refuse.