Religion
Sleep Consecration (I)
Translated by Alexander Carmichael (1900) · From Carmina Gadelica, vol. I (1900): Invocations
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.
Codex Note
Gaelic: Coisrig Cadail. Carmina Gadelica I, no. 33, Invocations.
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Anonymous (Scottish Gaelic). “Sleep Consecration (I).” Translated by Alexander Carmichael. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-scottish-gaelic/32/.
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Anonymous (Scottish Gaelic). “Sleep Consecration (I).” Translated by Alexander Carmichael. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-scottish-gaelic/32/.
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