Sleep, sleep to-day, tormenting cares, Of earth and folly born; Ye shall not dim the light that streams From this celestial morn. To-morrow will be time enough To feel your harsh control; Ye shall not violate, this day, The Sabbath of my soul. Sleep, sleep forever, guilty thoughts; Let fires of vengeance die; And, purged from sin, may I behold A God of purity!
Sleep, sleep to-day, tormenting cares, Of earth and folly born; Ye shall not dim the light that streams From this celestial morn. To-morrow will be time enough To feel your harsh control; Ye shall not violate, this day, The Sabbath of my soul. Sleep, sleep forever, guilty thoughts; Let...
Praise to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days— Bounteous source of every joy, Let Thy praise our tongues employ! For the blessings of the field, For the stores the gardens yield, For the vine’s exalted juice, For the generous olive’s use; Flocks that whiten all the plain,...
“Animula, vagula, blandula.” LIFE! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we met I own to me ’s a secret yet. But this I know, when thou art fled, Where’er they lay these limbs, this head, No clod so valueless shall be, As all that then remains...
