Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses

• Not a critical or scholarly text but a reading text for a seminar

By Night when Others Soundly Slept  

[1.1]    By night when others soundly slept
[1.2]    And hath at once both ease and Rest, 
[1.3]    My waking eyes were open kept
[1.4]    And so to lie I found it best. 

[2.1]    I sought him whom my Soul did Love,
[2.2]    With tears I sought him earnestly. 
[2.3]    He bow'd his ear down from Above.
[2.4]    In vain I did not seek or cry. 

[3.1]    My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good;
[3.2]    He in his Bottle put my tears, 
[3.3]    My smarting wounds washt in his blood,         [smarting = sore]
[3.4]    And banisht thence my Doubts and fears.       [banisht = banished]

[4.1]    What to my Saviour shall I give 
[4.2]    Who freely hath done this for me?
[4.3]    I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
[4.4]    And Love him to Eternity.