A Cradle Song (John Ireland)

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• (Posted 2023-11-01)  CPDL #76869:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-01).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 320 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Cradle Song
Composer: John Ireland
Lyricist: William Blake
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1914 Stainer & Bell
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Original text and translations

English text

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming in the joys of night;
Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.

Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.

As thy softest limbs I feel
Smiles as of the morning steal
O’er thy cheek, and o’er thy breast
Where thy little heart doth rest.

O the cunning wiles that creep
In thy little heart asleep!
When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the dreadful night shall break.