School: Bloomfield (roll number 10382)
- Location:
- Lavally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cathasaigh
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- Here I lay my body down to sleep
To God I pray my soul to keep
There are four corners on my bed
There are four angels there spread
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
God bless me on this bed I lie on.
If any evil thing came to trouble me,
O Blessed Virgin Mary, waken me.
Lord be the flower, Mary the branch,
Lord have mercy on me now
And at my dying hour.I lay my body down to sleep
I pray to God my soul to keep
And if I die before I wake
I pray to God my soul to take.- Collector
- Kathleen Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo