- I am now going into the sleep,
- Be it that I in health shall waken;
- If passing be to me in the death-sleep,
- Be it that with thy Wild Ride,
- O God of the Hunt, I in gladdness shall waken,
- Be it with thy hosting,
- O Gwyn ap Nudd, that I in mirth shall waken.
- Be my spirit as a circle of stars
- Around your white neck, O Queen of Heaven;
- Thou it was who gavest me the gift of life,
- Thou it was who brought me from the Cauldron.
- Encircle me this night, O Goddess,
- That no harm, no evil shall befall.
- Whilst my body is dwelling in the sleep,
- My spirit is soaring in the shadow of Annwn,
- Be the red-white Hounds meeting my spirit,
- Early and late, night and day,
- Early and late, night and day.
- So mote it be.
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