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Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
Approximate author period: c. 1601 AD · renaissance
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- John Donne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1601 AD · renaissance
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1572 to 1631; Wikidata Q140412, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140412 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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