Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! The little mouse cheeps plaintively, The nightingale 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, thou lovely one! Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! 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 lamb again -- Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! 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, thou lovely one! |