<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537977" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Watching Unto God In The Night Season</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep at last has fled these eyes,<br>Nor do I regret his flight,<br>More alert my spirits rise,<br>And my heart is free and light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nature silent all around,<br>Not a single witness near;<br>God as soon as sought is found;<br>And the flame of love burns clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Interruption, all day long,<br>Checks the current of my joys;<br>Creatures press me with a throng,<br>And perplex me with their noise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Undisturbed I muse all night,<br>On the first Eternal Fair;<br>Nothing there obstructs delight,<br>Love is renovated there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life, with its perpetual stir,<br>Proves a foe to love and me;<br>Fresh entanglements occur--<br>Comes the night, and sets me free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never more, sweet sleep, suspend<br>My enjoyments, always new:<br>Leave me to possess my friend;<br>Other eyes and hearts subdue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hush the world, that I may wake<br>To the taste of pure delights;<br>Oh the pleasures I partake--<br>God, the partner of my nights!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">David, for the selfsame cause,<br>Night preferred to busy day;<br>Hearts whom heavenly beauty draws,<br>Wish the glaring sun away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep, self–lovers, is for you--<br>Souls that love celestial know<br>Fairer scenes by night can view<br>Than the sun could ever show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537977" data-title="Watching Unto God In The Night Season de William Cowper" data-description="Sleep at last has fled these eyes, Nor do I regret his flight, More alert my spirits rise, And my heart is free and light. Nature silent all around, Not a single witness near; God as soon as sought is found; And the flame of love burns clear. In..."></div> </div> </div>

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