“Bless’d art Thou, O Lord of all”

BLESS’D art Thou, O Lord of all,

Who mak’st the bands of sleep to fall

Upon mine eyes, and slumber press

Mine eyelids down with heaviness.

God of my fathers, may it be

Thy will, this night to suffer me

To lay me down in peace and rise

In peace, when morning gilds the skies.

From thoughts of ill my slumber keep

And, lest the sleep of death I sleep,

O lighten Thou mine eyes, for Thou,

Lord, dost with light the eye endow.

Bless’d art Thou, O Lord most high,

Who in Thy glorious majesty

And in Thy gracious love hast given

Light upon earth and light in heaven.