Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Zaccheus he

Did climb the tree

Our Lord to see.

Our days begin with trouble here,

Our life is but a span,

And cruel death is always near,

So frail a thing is man.

Now I lay me down to take my sleep,[687:1]

I pray the Lord my soul to keep;

If I should die before I wake,