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Interval of grateful shade,
Welcome to my weary head!
Welcome, slumbers, to mine eyes,
Tired with glaring vanities!
My great Master still allows
Needful periods of repose:
By my heavenly Father blest,
Thus I give my powers to rest.
Heavenly Father! gracious name!
Night and day his love the same!
Far be each suspicious thought,
Every anxious care forgot!
Thou, my ever-bounteous God,
Crown’st my days with various good;
Thy kind eye, which cannot sleep,
My defenceless hours shall keep.
What if death my sleep invade?
Should I be of death afraid?
While encircled by thine arm,
Death may strike, but cannot harm.
With thy heavenly presence blest,
Death is life, and labour rest:
Welcome, sleep or death, to me,
Still secure,—for still with thee!
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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