Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mo… - Elizabeth Prentiss

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Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thy father's watching the sheep.
Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree,
And down drops a little dream for thee.
Sleep, baby, sleep!

Elizabeth Prentiss

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About Elizabeth Prentiss

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878) was an author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869).

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Alexander Maclaren Charles Haddon Spurgeon Thérèse of Lisieux Teresa of Ávila John Newton

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O happy life! life hid with Christ in God!
So making me,
At home, and by the wayside, and abroad,
Alone with Thee!

And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's-self, not a cloak put on to go to church and hang up out of the way against next Sunday.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, And down drops a little dream for thee. Sleep, baby, sl… - Elizabeth Prentiss

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