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] [
   text not verified 
  ]
• by Anthony L. W. Scott (b. 1911), "Lullaby", published 1976. [voice and piano] [
   text not verified 
  ]

Set in a modified version by Joseph Barnby, Sir, Sidney Homer, Otto Dresel, Stephen Adams, William Henry Anderson, Johan Backer-Lunde, Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman, Gustav Holst, Graham Peel, Alfred Humphries Pease.

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

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