CARMINA GADELICA

Ortha nan Gaidheal

SLEEP CONSECRATION

I lie down to-night

With fair Mary and with her Son,

With pure-white Michael,

And with Bride beneath her mantle.

I lie down with God,

And God will lie down with me,

I will not lie down with Satan,

Nor shall Satan lie down with me.

O God of the poor,

Help me this night,

Omit me not entirely

From Thy treasure-house.

For the many wounds

That I inflicted on Thee,

I cannot this night

Enumerate them.

Thou King of the blood of truth,

Do not forget me in Thy dwelling-place,

Do not exact from me for my transgressions,

Do not omit me in Thine ingathering.

In Thine ingathering.