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Close your eyes and lay me down

And sleep in sweet tranquillity

Forever at peace in me

Your heart and soul shan’t wonder

The night is deep, I try to sleep

No work the morrow, lo loving sorrow

In the cemetery buried, with thoughts I get carried.

Endeavouring a dream, with a silent scream

With an imploring cry, I prayed God to die

This is why, here I lie.

Layers of pleasure, with silence the treasure

With my mind at rest, thinking but for my best.

The sun warms me up, the rain fills me up

What else I need but with my body I feel

The hungry worms, with the ghastly winds,

Carrying but deadly sins, I lie in my eternal bed.

Where tranquillity bores its kingdom.