 | Dudley C. Gould - 2002 - 358 Seiten
...my fingertips went together on my tired, cracked lips, ready for a Buddhist or a Christian prayer. and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. The Casualty 1 awoke clawing my way out of a sticky cocoon on a cot in the mental hygiene ward... | |
 | Margaret M. Calkin - 2002 - 174 Seiten
...Mother taught me to say "Now I lay rne down to sleep. 1 pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." I didn't like the part about dying, but if Mother was saying it with me, it wasn't too bad. Then we did... | |
 | Morris A. Inch - 2002 - 166 Seiten
...child, I had been taught the prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." It was a disconcerting prayer. For one thing, I might not make it through the night. For another,... | |
 | Orest Stocco - 2002 - 338 Seiten
..."Yes, please." Billy crossed himself, "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take," and he crossed himself again. "I say my gran's prayer every night, Mr. O" "That's your gran's... | |
 | Perry L. Westmoreland - 2003 - 140 Seiten
...we should be receptive to what they had to say. Chapter 3: The Earth 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 above simple childhood prayer stresses mankind's mortality. If you doubt that you are really... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - 266 Seiten
...century later, how clearly I remember: Nou' 1 lay me down to slap I pray the Lord my soul to leap. And if I die before I wake., I pray the Lord my soul to take. Following this incantation came my roll of blessings. "God bless Mommy. God bless Daddy." "God... | |
 | John R. Hall - 2003 - 228 Seiten
...and over again as a kid: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul will keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." I never wanted Ryan and McKenna to repeat those words - too strange and foreboding. Just after 10:00... | |
 | Trish Reese - 2003 - 151 Seiten
...me with thy morning light," in Natalie's mind she was saying the prayer she had recited as a child. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. If I die. . .she wept silently. She left Molly's room and paused in the hallway long enough to... | |
 | Samuel Gompers, Peter J. Albert, Grace Palladino - 1986 - 626 Seiten
...a happy hour, Not only me but those who are near And dear to me, this night and evermore And should I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. ENGLISH tmdinmal * he day is past, the sun is set, And the white stars are in the sky, 31 While... | |
 | Ric Dee Lars, C F J Doebbler - 2003 - 270 Seiten
...those who we leave, behind to struggle on their tortured way, we can always hope on our dying day. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul will take, without demurring to my fate, but shaping my thoughts as he may. Keeping me from, of justice's... | |
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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. 
