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1.1.2.2: By Night When Others Soundly Slept

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    By Night When Others Soundly Slept License: Public Domain Anne Bradstreet
    1

    By night when others soundly slept

    And hath at once both ease and Rest,

    My waking eyes were open kept

    And so to lie I found it best.

    2

    I sought him whom my Soul did Love,

    With tears I sought him earnestly.

    He bow'd his ear down from Above.

    In vain I did not seek or cry.

    3

    My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good;

    He in his Bottle put my tears,

    My smarting wounds washt in his blood,

    And banisht thence my Doubts and fears.

    4

    What to my Saviour shall I give

    Who freely hath done this for me?

    I'll serve him here whilst I shall live

    And Loue him to Eternity.


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