xt7qjq0stw34_1320 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Newspaper clipping of Norman Gale's poem, Before Sleep text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Newspaper clipping of Norman Gale's poem, Before Sleep 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_12/Folder_101/Multipage4283.pdf undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_1320 xt7qjq0stw34 Before Sleep.
How better, 711t1101', could we p'uy
Than thus at end of honest day,
Naked nt heart, without pretence,
Secure in simple excellence,
A Wile and husband 11111111 in 11111111
At prayers 111110111: the sleeping band
01 1111::1-115‘ Wham Thy love hath lent
Tu bind our household 13:1(11'11111011t‘!

When hotter, Father, could we 1H1:

Thy care than after righteous tnsk,

T111: need well met, the dream refused,

The nil not spilled, the clenn 11111111
used?

TWO grey-haired t‘hildren kneel to Thee

1n suit for fresh felicity,

Whose married worship t1) Thine enr,

Allowed, parental, rises clear.

Nm- w‘ulth, nor place as gifts Divine
I 113k to full on 501114 01 1111110;

But, most of 1111, a nature Slll‘l’

To 511111-11 the henrt with richj and poor.
0 give them tears! 0 make them feel
A11 inward energy to 110111,

That never, full 111 {1‘0th pride,

They puss upon the other side.

130110111 those children, Father, God,
Their strip ()1 111C so briefly trod;
Their hearts unshudnd by the gloom,
Their eyes scarce looking past a bloom.
To act as 111inisters in these
Implant such holy qualities
That they 11111;; 111nrcl1 with love unspent,
And 111 Thy discipline content.

NORMAN GALE.