Sweet and Low (Abram Winne Lansing)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77116:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 482 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sweet and Low
Composer: Abram Winne Lansing
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1895 Arthur P. Schmidt
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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet and low, sweet and low
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me,
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother’s breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon!
Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.