A Garden Lullaby (Jacques Offenbach)
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- (Posted 2022-09-23) CPDL #70910:
- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-09-23). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 78 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: A Garden Lullaby
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Lyricist: Edith Sanford Tillotson
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: SA
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1920
Description: Arrangement of Belle nuit, the famous Barcarolle.
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Original text and translations
English text
Ev'ning breese,
come rock the trees,
The birds to slumber swinging;
Lull the flow'rs,
in shady bow'rs,
Their dreamland tryst to keep.
All the day,
the garden gay
With laughing life was ringing;
Now the sun,
his journey done,
Is veiled in shadows deep.
He lingers in the west,
A last smile to bestow,
Before he sinks to rest
'Neath the cloud-curtains low,
Sinking low.