LULLABY
Reading edition
Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul; The little mouse cheeps plaintively, The night-bird in the chestnut-tree— They sing together, bird and mouse, In starlight, in darkness, lonely, sweet, The wild notes and the faint notes meet— Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul.
Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul; Amid the lilies floats the moth, The mole along his galleries goeth In the dark earth; the summer moon Looks like a shepherd through the pane Seeking his feeble lamp again— Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul.
Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul; Time comes to keep night-watch with thee, Nodding with roses; and the sea Saith "Peace! Peace!" amid his foam. "O be still!" The wind cries up the whispering hill— Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul.