Sleep, Gentle Babe (Henry Thomas Smart)

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• (Posted 2023-12-08)  CPDL #77984:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 405 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sleep, Gentle Babe
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: James Steven Stallybrass
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Tonic Sol-Fa Agency
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English text

Sleep, gentle babe, your mother watches o’er you,
Soft sleeps the moonbeam on your cradle bed;
Sleep while the storms of life are yet before you,
Soft lies the pillow ’neath your drowsy head.
No thoughts of wrong your balmy slumbers breaking;
No rude alarm, no care to vex your waking,
Sleep sound and deep, in perfect peace reposing;
Sleep, gentle babe, your pretty eyelids closing.