“He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.”
Good Night (1632).
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English poet 1592–1644Related quotes
T were vain to tell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Never, dear father, love can be,
Like the dear love I had for thee!”
Canto IV
The Troubadour (1825)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 400.

Numbers 6:24-26.
Tyndale's translations
“Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.”

(13th November 1824) The Decision of the Flower
The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West