 | Literature - 1864 - 640 pages
...\\t\- trembles with reverence, And Sunbeam's spirit is not afraid. "NOW I LAt ME DOWN TO SLEEP." " Now I lay me down to sleep ! " First beside my mother...double whisper stealing ; " If I die before I wake, Pray the Lord my soul to take. ' ' " Now I lay me down to sleep ; " And the angels o'er me bending,... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...safe from dangers while I sleep. I lay me down upon my side, And pray the Lord to be my guide ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Sometimes this variation is heard : " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie... | |
 | 1856 - 690 pages
...TO SLEEP." " Now I lay mo down to sleep ! " First beside my mother kneeling ; Through the hushed up silence deep, Hear the double whisper stealing ; " If I die before I wake, Pray the Lord my sonl to take." " Now I lay me down to sleep ! " And the angels o'er me bending, Sent... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 750 pages
...was (and perhaps still is) : — Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. I believe the right reading was And if I die and ne'er awake, but the other was the popular version.... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...safe from dangers while 1 sleep. I lay me down upon my side, And pray the Lord to he my guide; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Sometimes this variation is heard : " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1855 - 852 pages
...childhood, embraced in the following: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray tho Lord my soul to keep) And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take!" It has been attributed to Watts time and again, but I am at a loss to find it in his collected... | |
 | Thomas Hughes Milner - 1858 - 528 pages
...prayer I had taught her — " This night I lay me down to sleep, I give my soul to Christ to keep, And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take " — breathed her last. And now, my little readers, Mary Walton has gone to her home in the skies,... | |
 | Maine. State Convention of Sabbath School Teachers - Sabbath schools - 1859 - 100 pages
...after her mother, the prayer — " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." The little girl rose up, and the mother looked for the little boy to rise; but he remained kneeling.... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - Christian life - 1859 - 170 pages
...bed this little prayer : " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And should I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." And he further adds, that he never knew when to stop Baying that little prayer ; and so every... | |
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I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. 
