...ower." Then he repeated, as he had done every night of his life : This night 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. He was sleeping quietly when the wind drove the snow against the window with a sudden swish ;...

...inner truth of a child's life and need than is the Lord's Prayer ; and if the two following lines, If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take, do not seem so suitable, nevertheless it would be easy to discover a modern analogue to this...

...simplicity, At the close of day : Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. • i ATTEMPTS AT LEARNING. My master was sent on Government business to Buenos Ayres. Some of the slaves...

...house a whole month taught me a 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. Amen." After Rose told me I would turn black when I died, I stopped saying the prayer, because...

...closed our eyes in sleep: "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 this I ask for Jesus' sake. Amen." And the Mother, by the tender and quiet influence of a...

...the heavens before taking a trip to Salem! The time is past when the occupant of the crib can say, " And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take"; his plaint is rather more 23 like this : " Don't even mention death to me or I shall lie awake...

...and her cheeks were scarlet. Inscribed on the wall under the canopy of the bed was this legend : " If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. If my soul depart this day, A place in Paradise I pray." So many of the Caldicotts had been cut...

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...prayer which' I have never forgotten, and which ran as follows : — And 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. It was Pedro, the South American Spaniard, who had stabbed a man to death in London, but who...

...Perrin, as I slyly glanced at him while he repeated the childhood 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. This I ask for Jesus' sake. The above is not the way Billy Sunday words and spells it but it...