| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | “Bless’d art Thou, O Lord of all” | | By Alice Lucas |
| | | BLESS’D art Thou, O Lord of all, | |
| Who mak’st the bands of sleep to fall | |
| Upon mine eyes, and slumber press | |
| Mine eyelids down with heaviness. | |
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| God of my fathers, may it be | 5 |
| Thy will, this night to suffer me | |
| To lay me down in peace and rise | |
| In peace, when morning gilds the skies. | |
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| From thoughts of ill my slumber keep | |
| And, lest the sleep of death I sleep, | 10 |
| O lighten Thou mine eyes, for Thou, | |
| Lord, dost with light the eye endow. | |
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| Bless’d art Thou, O Lord most high, | |
| Who in Thy glorious majesty | |
| And in Thy gracious love hast given | 15 |
| Light upon earth and light in heaven. | | | | |
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