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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Now I lay Me
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When I pass from earth away,
Palsied though I be and gray,
May my spirit keep so young
That my failing, faltering tongue
Frames that prayer so dear to me
Taught me at my mother`s knee:
"Now I lay me down to sleep,"
(Passing to Eternal rest
On the loving parent breast)
"I pray the Lord my soul to keep;"
(From all danger safe and calm
In the hollow of His palm
"If I should die before I wake,"
(Drifting with a bated breath
Out of slumber into death,)
"I pray the Lord my soul to take."
(From the body`s claim set free
Sheltered in the Great to be.)
Simple prayer of trust and truth
Taught me in my early youth—
Let my soul its beauty keep
When I lay me down to sleep.
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