A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England / Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.

by Roger Williams

I have heard ingenuous Indians say,

In debts, they could not sleepe;

How far worse are such English then,

Who love in debt to keepe?

If Debts of pounds cause restlesse nights

In trade with man and man,

How hard’s that heart that millions owes

To God, and yet sleepe can?

Debts paid, sleep’s sweet, sins paid Death’s Sweet,

Death’s night then’s turned to light;