 | Dorothy M. Stewart - Religion - 1999 - 466 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest, my soul advance, Make my sleep a holy trance. That I may, my sleep being wrought, Awake into some holy thought. And with as active vigor run My course, as does... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English poetry - 1927 - 492 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest my soul advance...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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 502 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest; While I do rest, my soul advance,...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... | |
 | Literature - 1866 - 956 pages
...tho«e watchful foes Whose eyes are open while mine close; Let no dreams my lieiid infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest my soul advance,...wrought, Awake into some holy thought, And with as active viyour run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death : 0 make me try By sleeping what it is... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 348 pages
...Jacob.s temples blest. * Both of whom were permitted by Nero to choose the mode in which they would die. While I do rest, my soul advance, Make my sleep a...Awake into some holy thought ; And with as active vigor run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death. O make me try, By sleeping, what it is... | |
 | Dorothy M. Stewart - Religion - 1999 - 466 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest, my soul advance, Make my sleep a holy trance. That I may, my sleep being wrought, Awake into some holy thought. And with as active vigor run My course, as does... | |
 | Missions - 1888 - 592 pages
...dreams my head Infant, Bat such as Jacob's temples hlesl. While I do rest, my soul advance, Make me sleep a holy trance: That I may, my rest being wrought •Awake into some holy thought, •And with asactive vigour run •My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep Is a death; oh make me try, By sleeping,... | |
 | Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - Books - 1866 - 610 pages
...writes:— Ken writes:— To pay thy morning sacrifice. That I may, my rest being wrought, Awake unto some holy thought, And with as active vigour run, My course, as doth the nimble sun. The grave, as little as my bed, To die, that this vile body may Teach me to live that I may dread Browne... | |
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While I do rest, my soul advance: Make my sleep a holy trance: That I may, my rest being wrought, Awake into some holy thought, And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble sun. 
