Sabine Baring-Gould

English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, eclectic scholar, folk song collector (1834-1924)
1834–1924, born in Exeter

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Jesus, give the weary Calm and sweet repose. With Thy tend'rest blessing May our eyelids close.

"Now the Day Is Over", reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 614

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