Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). 'Sleep is a death'. Andrew Macphail, comp. 1916. The Book of Sorrow

Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

I. Serenity
‘Sleep is a death’

By Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682)


From ‘Religio Medici’, Part 2, XII. SLEEP is a death; O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die!
And as gently lay my head
On my grave as now my bed.

Howe’er I rest, Great God, let me	5
Awake again at last with Thee;
And thus assured, behold I lie
Securely, or to wake or die.