 | 1886 - 554 Seiten
...down. Folding her hands, she repeated a rhyme she had learnt when she was a very little. child:— ' Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head, One to watch, two to pray, And one to keep all fears away.' And the nightingale sang on, and the crickets... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 Seiten
...consisted but of these old lines : — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed I sleep upon ; Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head : One to read, and one to write, And two to guard me all the night. Under such circumstances what could Dame... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 Seiten
...God within and God without, Bless me round about. Norfolk. CE. xi. 474. John, Mark, Luke, and Bless the bed that I lay on, Four corners to my bed, Four angels there lay spread. God within and God without, And Jesus Christ all round about. Suffolk. CG. viii.... | |
 | 1893 - 112 Seiten
...air I go flying again, Up in the air and down! Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Guard the bed that I lie on ! Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch, one to pray, And two to bear my soul away. Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden... | |
 | Wyllys Rede - 1893 - 222 Seiten
...the nursery rhymes of his childhood fulfilled. He sees an angel standing at each corner of his bed. " Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head ; One to watch, two to pray, And one to bear my soul away." 1 EdnaLyall. He wonders why there should be two... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1897 - 296 Seiten
...Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked ? MATTHEW, Mark, Luke, and John, Guard the bed that...corners to my bed, Four angels round my head ; One to watch, one to pray, And two to bear my soul away ! COME, butter, come, Come, butter, come ! Peter stands... | |
 | Jessie Bedford - 1903 - 384 Seiten
...go with me, And all that shall weare thee. Of still greater antiquity probably is the following — Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head : One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Bless the bed that... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1904 - 310 Seiten
...watch me while I pray, One to bear my soul away. After the first two lines it goes sometimes : — Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head ; One to read and one to write, Two to guard my bed at night. And often the closing lines run : — One to watch... | |
 | Thurstan Collins Peter - 1906 - 74 Seiten
...instance, the common children s' prayer : ' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Guard the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head — One to watch, one to pray, And two to bear my soul away !' comes from one of the Towneley mysteries. Words... | |
 | 1909 - 672 Seiten
...youth the watching and praying belonged to the angels, not to the Evangelists. The lines ran thus : — Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head ; One to watch and one to pray, And two to bear my soul away. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that... | |
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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. 
