Now I lay me down to sleep

Cultural  

1. Words of a children's prayer:

   Now I lay me down to sleep;

   I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

   If I should die before I wake,

   I pray the Lord my soul to take.

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Example Sentences

Now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now I lay me down to sleep;" rather, from the first, they lisped, "Our Father who art in Heaven.

From Time Magazine Archive

For rising in that cadence low,   With "Now I lay me down to sleep," Her mother rocked her to and fro,   And prayed the Lord her soul to keep.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various

Then the night-wind gets up, and the sands move, and you hear the desert outside the city singing, "Now I lay me down to sleep," and everything is dark till the moon rises.

From The Light That Failed by Kipling, Rudyard

Yet, as the shadows round me creep,   I do not seem to be alone,—   Sweet magic of that treble tone, And "Now I lay me down to sleep."

From A Little Book of Western Verse by Field, Eugene