 | Henry Charles Beeching - Religious poetry, English - 1903 - 454 pages
...vigour run My course, as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death. Oh, make me try By sleeping, what is it to die ! And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee ! And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1904 - 426 pages
...while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rent, my Soul advance ; Make my sleep a holy trance. That...as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howere 1 rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with tliee. And thus assur'd, behold I Re Securely,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1904 - 432 pages
...active vigour run My course, as doth the nimblt Sun. Sleep is a death ; 0 make me try, By slteping. what it is to die: And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Sowere 1 rest, great God, ltt me Awake again at last with thee. And thus assur'd, behold I lie Stcurely,... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - Hymns - 1889 - 554 pages
...active vigour run .My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; — O make me try, By Bleeping, what it is to die ! And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God. let me Awake again at last with Thee ; And thus assur'd, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...holy thought ; And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble Sun. kSleep is a death : O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee ; And thus assur'd, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1908 - 450 pages
...try, By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with...thee, And thus assured, behold I lie. Securely, or to wako or die. These are my drowsy days; in rain I do now wake to sleep again: O come that hour, when... | |
 | Thomas Banks Strong, William Sanday - Hymns, English - 1908 - 958 pages
...Sleep is a death : oh, make me try By sleeping, what it is to die ; And then as gently lay my head Upon my grave, as now my bed : Howc'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with thce. And thus assured, behold, I lie Securely, or to wake or die : These arc my drowsy days : in vain... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...holy thought; And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble Sun. Sleep is a death ; O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. However 1 rest, great GOD, let me Awake again at last with Thee; And thus assur'd, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...holy thought; And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death; oh! make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee. And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
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Sleep is a death, O make me try. By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. 
