Sweet and low (Joseph Barnby)

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CPDL #14733:   Sibelius 5

Editor: Robert Nottingham (submitted 2007-08-17).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 70 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MIDI and Sibelius files are zipped.

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Title: Sweet and low
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1863

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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet and low, sweet and low

Wind of the western sea,

Low, low, breathe and blow,

Wind of the western sea!

Over the rolling waters go,

Come from the dying moon, and blow,

Blow him again to me,

While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,

Father will come to thee soon;

Rest, rest, on mother's breast,

Father will come to thee soon;

Father will come to his babe in the nest,

Silver sails all out of the west

Under the silver moon!

Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.

Sanft und sacht, sanft und sacht

weht es von Westen her;

sacht, sacht, kaum erwacht

Wind auf dem westlichen Meer!

Über der wogenden Wellen Pracht

weh' durch die mondbeglänzte Nacht,

trage ihn zu mir her -

Schlummre sanft mein Kind, schlummre süß mein Kind, ruh!

Schlummre fest, schlummre fest,

Vater wird bald bei dir sein;

ruh', ruh' im Arme fest,

Vater tritt bald bei uns ein;

Vater schaut bald auf sein Kindlein im Nest,

silbern winken Segel aus West

im Silbermondenschein!

Schlummre sanft mein Kind, schlummre süß mein Kind, ruh!

Translation into German by Bertram Kottmann copyright 2009