Cradle Song (Philip Le Bas)
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- (Posted 2022-12-23) CPDL #71988: PDF, MP3, MXL, SIB and MIDI files available.
- Editor: Philip Le Bas (submitted 2022-12-23). Score information: A4, 8 pages Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Cradle Song
Composer: Philip Le Bas
Lyricist: William Blake
Number of voices: 1/2vv Voicing: Unison, with SA or TB divisi
Genre: Sacred, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2022
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Original text and translations
English text
A Cradle Song
by William Blake
Sweet dreams, form a shade
O'er my lovely infant's head!
Sweet dreams of pleasant streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
Sweet Sleep, with soft down
Weave thy brows an infant crown!
Sweet Sleep, angel mild,
Hover o'er my happy child!
Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my delight!
Sweet smiles, mother's smiles,
All the livelong night beguiles.
Sweet moans, dovelike sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,
All the dovelike moans beguiles.
Sleep, sleep, happy child!
All creation slept and smiled.
Sleep, sleep, happy sleep,
While o'er thee thy mother weep.
Sweet babe, in thy face
Holy image I can trace;
Sweet babe, once like thee
Thy Maker lay, and wept for me:
Wept for me, for thee, for all,
When He was an infant small.
Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly face that smiles on thee!
Smiles on thee, on me, on all,
Who became an infant small;
Infant smiles are His own smiles;
Heaven and earth to peace beguiles.