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Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you’ve recollected thrice The train of action through the day. Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been, From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen? What know I more that’s worth the knowing? What have I done that’s worth the doing?
Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you’ve recollected thrice The train of action through the day. Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been, From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen? What know I more that’s worth the knowing? What have I done that’s worth the doing?
Approximate author period: c. 1711 AD · early modern
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- Isaac Watts
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- Approximate author period: c. 1711 AD · early modern
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 552; printed byline: Isaac Watts; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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