“And hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast and calm repose.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 87
“Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose.
With Thy tend'rest blessing
May our eyelids close.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 614.
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Calm and sweet repose.
With Thy tend'rest blessing
May our eyelids close." by Sabine Baring-Gould?
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This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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O gently guide my pilgrim feet
To find thy hermit cell.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.
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