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Cradle Songs
To a Tune of Blake’s
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Baby, baby bright,
Sleep can steal from sight
Little of your light:
Baby, baby bright,
Sleep can steal from sight
Little of your light:
Soft as fire in dew,
Still the life in you
Lights your slumber through.
Still the life in you
Lights your slumber through.
Four white eyelids keep
Fast the seal of sleep
Deep as love is deep:
Fast the seal of sleep
Deep as love is deep:
Yet, though closed it lies,
Love behind them spies
Heaven in two blue eyes.
Love behind them spies
Heaven in two blue eyes.
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