Cradle song

Ere the moon begins to rise
Or a star to shine,
All the bluebells close their eyes;
So close thine,
Thine, dear, thine!1

Birds are sleeping in the nest,
On the swaying bough;
Thus, against the [mother-breast]2,
So sleep thou,
Sleep, sleep, sleep!

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) , "Cradle song", from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems, published 1895

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

by Percy Lee Atherton (1871-1944) , "Cradle song", op. 20 (Four songs) no. 2, published 1903.
by George F. Bauer , "Cradle song", published 1896.
by George Alfred Grant-Schaefer (1872-1939) , "Ere the moon begins to rise", published 1912.
by (Henry Louis) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) , "Cradle song"
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872-1951) , "Ere the moon begins to rise", published 1906.
by Liborius Semmann (1873-?) , "Cradle song", published 1909.
by Frederick Newell Shackley (1868-?) , "Ere the moon begins to rise", published 1898.
by Adolf Weidig (1867-1931) , "Cradle song", op. 80 (Three songs to poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich) no. 1, published 1927.

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