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 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1855 - 306 pages
...she coloured and faltered, and said, uneasily, " Yes, yes, of course I do, I say every night,— ' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four posts around my bed, Four angels guard my head.'"&c., &c.* " Oh, Bella, stop, that's nonsense, —... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1855 - 668 pages
...Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child, Pity my simplicity, And suffer me to come to thee. " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Six angels lying spread. " Two at head, and two at feet, And two to guard me while... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Great Britain - 1855 - 320 pages
...in your little crib at Burrough, and said — " Four corners to my bed ; Four angels round my head ; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on." And who could doubt it, (if being pure themselves. they have instinctive sympathy with what is pure,)... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 324 pages
...knelt in your little crib at Burrough, and said— " Four corners to my bed; Four angels round my head; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on." And who could doubt it, (if being pure themselves, they have instinctive sympathy with what is pure,)... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Great Britain - 1855 - 394 pages
...in your little crib at Burrough , and said — "Four corners to my bed; Four angels round my head; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on." And who could doubt it, (if being pure themselves, they have instinctive sympathy with what is pure... | |
 | Oxford essays - 1855
...rhyming prayer, of no very Protestant tendency — Four crosses to my bed, Four angels round my head ; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on — is a proof of the tenacity with which the popular memory retains the traces of versified theological... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Sometimes this variation is heard : " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; All the four corners round about, When I get in, when I get out."] Ady, in his Candle in the Dark,... | |
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away. 
