Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is...

Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,
  And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us
  At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow,
  Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee,
  Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas!
                                Seal Lullaby

by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) , no title, from The Jungle Book, heading to the chapter "The White Seal", published 1894

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

by Robert Whitman Atkinson (1868-1933?) , "The Seal's Lullaby", published 1909. [voice and piano]
by Dora Estella Bright (1863-1951) , "Mother Seal's Lullaby", published 1903. [voice and piano]
by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869-1941) , "The Seal's Lullaby", published 1942. [unison voices and piano]
by Clayton Johns (1857-1932) , "The Seal's Lullaby", <<1932. [voice and piano]
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "Mother Seal's Lullaby", published 1908 [voice and piano], from Two Seal Songs, no. ?
by Roland Leich (1911-1995) , "Seal Lullaby", published <<1940.
by Walter Raymond Spalding (1865-1962) , "Seal Lullaby", published <<1940.
by Erskine Wood , "The White Seal's Lullaby", published 1922 [voice and piano], piano part by Randall Thompson

by Maurice Delage (1879-1961) , "Maktah", 1934, published 1935 [voice and piano], from Trois chants de la jungle, no. 1.
by Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) , "Berceuse Phoque", op. 18 no. 1 (1899-1900), from Trois Poèmes du Livre de la Jungle, no. 1.

Date added to the website: 2009-02-06.

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