Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

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Now I lay me down to sleep is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.

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Perhaps the earliest version was written by Joseph Addison in an essay appearing in The Spectatoron 8th March 1711. It says:

A later version printed in The New England Primer goes:

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Other versions

It is sometimes combined with the "Black Paternoster", one version of which goes:

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia