Flower-cup, and bud, and bell,

Have shut around the sleeping woodlark’s nest;

The bee’s long murmuring toils are done,

And I, the o’erwearied one,

O’erwearied and o’erwrought,

Bless thee, O God! O Father of the oppress’d!

With my last waking thought,

In the still night!

Yes! e’er I sink to rest,

By the fire’s dying light,