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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. "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 14
1821
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...Humorous Lieutenant. V. BEAUMONT. Sleep is a death ; 0 make me try '}y sleeping whut it is to die, Anil as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed. Ketitio Meaici. Pan ii. Sir. 12. SIR T. BROWNE. Let guilt, or fear, Disturb man's rest, Cato knows...
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 pages
...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 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,...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 1

Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1927 - 420 pages
...I do rest, my Soul advance; Make my sleep a holy trance. That I may, my rest being wrought) Atcalce into some holy thought ; And with as active vigour...as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. ffowere I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with thee. And thus assur'd, behold I lie Securely,...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...holy thought; And with as active vigour run My course, aa 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. 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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The Evolution of the English Hymn: An Historical Survey of the Origins and ...

Frederick John Gillman - Hymns, English - 1927 - 340 pages
...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. There is no need to assume that Ken was a plagiarist. A much more likely explanation is that both hymns,...
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The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

Sir John Collings Squire - English poetry - 1927 - 496 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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The Evolution of the English Hymn: An Historical Survey of the Origins and ...

Frederick John Gillman - Hymns, English - 1927 - 336 pages
...course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; — O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die I And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed. There is no need to assume that Ken was a plagiarist. A much more likely explanation is that both hymns,...
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Seventeenth Century Lyrics from the Original Texts

Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 544 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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Littell's Living Age, Volume 43

American periodicals - 1854 - 694 pages
...holy trance, That I may, my rest being wrought, Awake unto some holy thought, And with as active vigor run • My course, as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is...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...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

Literature - 1909 - 378 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 I rest, great GOD, let me Awake again at last with Thee; And thus assur'd, behold I lie Securely,...
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