Three Night Songs

by Scott Wheeler (b. 1952)

1. A Variation on “To Say to Go to Sleep”
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
If I could, I would sing you to sleep.
I would give you my hand to keep
In yours till you fell asleep,
And take it away then, slowly.
I would sit by you and be.

In the world the dark would be deep.
I would watch. And at last I would sleep.

But if rain should star the stream
Of your sleep, I would whisper: “See
You are asleep”; and slowly,
Your breath would change in your dream
Till, ages and ages deep
In the dark, you would say to me:
“I love you.”
I love you,
But I am here always. Sleep now. Sleep.

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2. Shadow Dream
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
the shadow of your sleeping body
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3. The Darker Sooner
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Then came the darker sooner
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