Bright is the moon on the deep,
Bright are the cliffs in her beam,
  Sleep, my little one, sleep!
Look he smiles, and opens his hands,
He sees his father in distant lands,
And kisses him there in a dream,
  Sleep, sleep.

Father is over the deep,
Father will come to thee soon,
  Sleep, my pretty one, sleep!
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the West,
Under the silver moon,
  Sleep, sleep!

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An alternative (discarded) version of "Sweet and Low" as published in The Princess

Text Authorship:

• by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, Volume I, first published 1897 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Marian McLaughlin (b. 1923), "Lullaby to a seafarer's son", published 1948 [ SSAA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anthony L. W. Scott (b. 1911), "Lullaby", published 1976 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Set in a modified version by Stephen Adams, William Henry Anderson, Johan Backer-Lunde, Joseph Barnby, Sir, Benjamin Burrows, Otto Dresel, Gustav Holst, Sidney Homer, Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman, Florence A. Marshall, Alfred Humphries Pease, Graham Peel, John Theodore Livingston Raynor, Arthur Somervell, Sir, Stefania Ivanivna Turkevich-Lukiyanovich.

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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-28
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