The Poetry Corner

To His Sweet Saviour

By Robert Herrick

Night hath no wings, to him that cannot sleep; And Time seems then, not for to fly, but creep; Slowly her chariot drives as if that she Had broke her wheel, or crackt her axletree. Just so it is with me who, list'ning, pray The winds to blow the tedious night away, That I might see the cheerful peeping day. Sick is my heart; O Saviour! do Thou please To make my bed soft in my sicknesses; Lighten my candle, so that I beneath Sleep not for ever in the vaults of death; Let me Thy voice betimes i'th' morning hear; Call, and I'll come; say Thou the when and where; Draw me but first, and after Thee I'll run, And make no one stop, till my race be done.