MY FLIGHT FOR HEAVEN

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) Blake R. Henson

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Ease my sick head, And make my bed. Thou

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Ease my sick head, And make my bed. Thou Pow'r

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full de - light, I leave this light And take my flight

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