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SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP, by                    
First Line: Buona vespre! Sleep: your candle-end
Last Line: -buona notte! Sleep: your candle-end . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan


Buona vespre! Sleep: Your candle-end,
They set it there, then they left.
You'll not be afraid by yourself, poor little one? . . .
It's the candlestick for your bed at the inn.

Fear no longer the pen-pusher's lash,
Go! . . . To wake no more isn't so reckless.
Buona sera! Sleep: Your candle-end . . .

Is dead. -Here no doorkeeper longer attends:
Just the wind from the north, the wind from the south
Comes to quiver a gossamer thread.
Shhh! To the scoundrels, your ground is accursed.
-Buona notte! Sleep: Your candle-end . . .





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