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by Leonard Feeney (1897 - 1978)

Sleep
Language: English 
Sleep is not something you worry about;
Sleep is just something you do.
Don't make resolutions to figure it out,
But love it like children and sleep will come true.

We never go to sleep to dream;
We go to sleep to go to sleep.
Unusual as it may seem,
We never spend our time counting sheep.

A little confidence does the trick
When we climb into our beds,
Instead of filling our heads
With a lot of animals and arithmetic.

We love the way we love to go to sleep;
To sink into a slumber that is always pretty deep,
To go sailing off to a star,
To be buried in a field of hay,
To stop remembering who we are
When we're finished with our prayers and our play,
After we have given you a goodnight kiss
And closed our eyes like this:

It's an awful lot of fun,
And it's restful too;
Do you see how it's done?
Do you?

Text Authorship:

  • by Leonard Feeney (1897 - 1978) [author's text not yet checked 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 Theodore Ward Chanler (1902 - 1961), "Sleep", 1945, from The Children, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-10-31
Line count: 24
Word count: 163

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