<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384508" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Now I lay Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I pass from earth away,<br>Palsied though I be and gray,<br>May my spirit keep so young<br>That my failing, faltering tongue<br>Frames that prayer so dear to me<br>Taught me at my mother's knee:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Now I lay me down to sleep,'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Passing to Eternal rest<br>On the loving parent breast)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I pray the Lord my soul to keep;'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(From all danger safe and calm<br>In the hollow of His palm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If I should die before I wake,'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Drifting with a bated breath<br>Out of slumber into death,)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I pray the Lord my soul to take.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(From the body's claim set free<br>Sheltered in the Great to be.)<br>Simple prayer of trust and truth<br>Taught me in my early youth-<br>Let my soul its beauty keep<br>When I lay me down to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384508" data-title="Now I lay Me de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="When I pass from earth away, Palsied though I be and gray, May my spirit keep so young That my failing, faltering tongue Frames that prayer so dear to me Taught me at my mother's knee: 'Now I lay me down to sleep,' (Passing to Eternal rest On th..."></div> </div> </div>

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