Ossian Collection > Carmina gadelica

NIGHT SHIELDING 339
REST BENEDICTION
Reciter : Dugall MacAulay, cottar, Hacleit, Benbecula
Bless to me, O God, the moon that is above me.
Bless to me, O God, the earth that is beneath me,
Bless to me, O God, my wife and my children,
And bless, O God, myself who have care of them ;
Bless to me my wife and my children,
And bless, O God, myself who have care of them.
Bless, O God, the thing on which mine eye doth rest.
Bless, O God, the thing on which my hope doth rest,
Bless, O God, my reason and my purpose.
Bless, O bless Thou them. Thou God of life ;
Bless, O God, my reason and my purpose,
Bless, O bless Thou them. Thou God of life.
Bless to me the bed-companion of my love.
Bless to me the handling of my hands.
Bless, O bless Thou to me, O God, the fencing of my defence.
And bless, O bless to me the angeUng of my rest ;
Bless, O bless Thou to me, O God, the fencing of my
defence.
And bless, O bless to me the angeling of my rest.