Sleep, sleep today, tormenting cares

Anna Lætitia Barbauld

1743 to 1825

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Sleep, sleep today, tormenting cares
Of earth and folly born!
Ye shall not dim the light that streams
From this celestial morn.

Tomorrow will be time enough
To feel your harsh controul;
Ye shall not violate, this day,
The sabbath of my soul.

Sleep, sleep forever, guilty thoughts!
Let fires of vengeance die;
And, purg’d from sin, may I behold
A God of purity!