Cradle Song

not by William Blake

 

Sleep, sleep, bright beauty,

Dreaming in the joys of night.

Sleep, sleep, in thy sleep

Little sorrows sit and cry.

 

Sweet babe, in they eyes

Soft desires I can trace,

Secret joys and secret smiles

Pretty little wiles of an infant.

 

As thy softest limbs I touch

Smiles as of the morning steal

O’er thy face and o’er thy breast,

Where thy little heart does lie.

 

O the cunning wiles that creep

In thy little sleeping heart!

When thy little heart wakes up

Then the dreadful night shall break.