L + 

Sleeplessness + 

Unwearied God, before whose face + 

The night is clear as day, + 

Whilst we, poor worms, o’er life’s scant race + 

Now creep, and now delay, + 

We with death’s foretaste alternate + 

Our labour’s dint and sorrow’s weight, + 

Save in that fever-troubled state + 

When pain or care has sway. + 

Dread Lord! Thy glory, watchfulness, + 

Is but disease in man; + 

We to our cost our bounds transgress + 

In Thy eternal plan: + 

Pride grasps the powers by Thee display’d, + 

Yet ne’er the rebel effort made + 

But fell beneath the sudden shade + 

Of nature’s withering ban. + 