Lullaby of life (Henry David Leslie)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-09). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 476 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2020-12-06). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 141 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Lullaby of life
Composer: Henry David Leslie
Lyricist: Samuel John Stone
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1874 Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.
Description: Published 2nd by Novello and Co, Part-song book second series number 881
Four Part Songs for Mixed Voices, No. 1
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Original text and translations
English text
Sleep little flower, whose petals fade and fall
O'er the sunless ground;
Ring no more peals of perfume on the air,
Sleep long and sound,
Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep!
Sleep summer wind,
whose breathing grows more faint,
As night draws slowly nigh;
Cease thy sweet chanting in the cloistral woods,
And seem to die!
Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep!
Sleep, thou great ocean, whose wild waters sink
Under the setting sun!
Hush the loud music of thy warring waves
Till night is done!
Sleep, sleep, sleep!
Sleep, thou tired heart, whose mountain pulses droop
Within the valley cold:
On pain and pleasures, fears and hopes of life
Let go thine hold!
Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep!
Sleep, for 'tis only sleep, and there shall be new life
For all at day;
So sleep all, sleep all until the restful night
Has passed away, passed away!"
Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep!