Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

= Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep =

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World War I poster of the United States

Now I lay me down to sleep is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.

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Perhaps the earliest version was written by Joseph Addison in an essay appearing in The Spectatoron 8th March 1711. It says:

A later version printed in The New England Primer goes:'''Other versions It is sometimes combined with the "Black Paternoster", one version of which goes:References '''
 * 1) The New England Primer, 1750 ed., p. 28.
 * 2) I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), ISBN 0-19-860088-7, pp. 357–60.
 * 1) I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), ISBN 0-19-860088-7, pp. 357–60.
 * 1) I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), ISBN 0-19-860088-7, pp. 357–60.