Dream, Baby Dream (Arthur Baynon)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-20). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 618 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Dream, Baby Dream
Composer: Arthur Baynon
Lyricist: Bryan Procter
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1912 Stainer & Bell
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Original text and translations
English text
Dream, Baby, dream!
The stars are glowing.
Hear’st thou the stream?
’Tis softly flowing.
All gently glide the Hours:
Above, no tempest lowers:
Below, are fragrant flowers
In silence growing.
Sleep, Baby, sleep,
’Till dawn tomorrow!
Why should’st thou weep,
Who know’st not sorrow?
Too soon come pains and fears;
Too soon a cause for tears:
So, from thy future years
No sadness borrow!
Dream, Baby, dream!
Thine eyelids quiver.
Know’st thou the theme
Of yon soft river?
It saith “Be calm, Be sure,
Unfailing, gentle, pure;
So shall thy life endure,
Like mine, for ever!”