“Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine.”
“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”
“Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.”
“If you lay down and act like a doormat... then you are sure to get walked on.”
“I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.”
“Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".”