Rock me to sleep (Francesco Berger)

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• (Posted 2023-09-22)  CPDL #75611:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 507 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Rock me to sleep
Composer: Francesco Berger
Lyricist: Elizabeth Akers Allen
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1871 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for tonight!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore;
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the silver threads out of my hair;
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; -
Rock me to sleep, Mother,– rock me to sleep!

Mother, dear Mother, the years have been long
Since I was hushed by your lullaby song:
Yet with deep fondness and passionate pain,
Yearn I tonight for your presence again.
Tired of the hollow, the bas and untrue,
Mother, dear Mother, my heart pines for you;
Never hereafter to wake, or to weep,
Rock me to sleep, Mother,– rock me to sleep!