Calm let me slumber in that dark repose,
Till the last morn its orient beam disclose:
Then, when the great archangel’s potent sound
Shall echo thro’ creation’s ample round,
Wak’d from the sleep of death, with joy survey
The op’ning splendors of eternal day!
Original: “Thoughts on Midnight” (1739) by Elizabeth Carter 1717-1806.
Possible source: “A Night Piece” by “Miss Carter”, #97 in Elegant Extracts, or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry, selected for the Improvement of Young Persons, 1796 and earlier, ed. Vicesimus Knox.