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“NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP”

“Now I lay me down to sleep 

To close my eyes 

To find my dreams. 

If I do they’ll let me stay 

So mommy don’t you cry, okay? 

If by dawn my eyes won’t rise 

You’ll know I’m home and safe inside. 

So now I lay me down to sleep 

If I wake up 

In tears I’ll be. 

Again another day I’ll face 

‘Til I can close my eyes and say,

Now I lay me down to sleep 

To close my eyes 

To find my dreams. 

If I do they’ll let me stay 

So mommy don’t you cry, okay?” 

—Terry Moore, Strangers In Paradise (v.7), “Sanctuary”

“
They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, ‘Who are you really, wanderer?’ and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: ‘Maybe I’m a king.’
William Stafford
“
Reveal the dragon thro’ the human; coursing swift as fire
To the close hall of counsel, where his Angel form renews.
William Blake, “America: A Prophecy”
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
Emily Dickinson