Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Violin Songs. I. Going to SleepGeorge MacDonald (18241905)
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That I take your clothes away;
Better sleep you so will get,
And at morning wake more gay—
Saith the children’s mother.
For you need a better dress;
Too much worn are body and brain;
You need everlastingness—
Saith the heavenly father.
Laid my garments in the tomb;
Dressed again one morning fair;
Hastened up, and hied me home—
Saith the elder brother.
Any ill can come to me;
When ’tis time to go to bed,
I will rise and go with Thee—
Saith the little brother.