Cradle song (Henry Thomas Smart)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-10-18). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 126 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Cradle song
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: E. M. S.
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
, with Bass divisi.
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 8, no. 245
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Original text and translations
English text
Lullaby, the winds are singing
On thy mother's breast,
Night her mantle round thee flinging,
Rest, my baby, rest;
Grief and pain the hours may number,
Sleep from sorrow flies,
Soft and dreamless is the slumber,
Hovering o'er thine eyes.
Steeped in dew each bud and blossom
Slumbers on its stem,
Droop thy head on mother's bosom,
Sleep, my babe, like them.
Starry eyes in heaven above thee
Silent vigils keep,
While the arms of those that love thee
Rock thee to thy sleep.