| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| William Blake. 1757–1827 |
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| 490. Cradle Song |
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| SLEEP, sleep, beauty bright, | |
| Dreaming in the joys of night; | |
| Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep | |
| Little sorrows sit and weep. | |
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| Sweet babe, in thy face | 5 |
| Soft desires I can trace, | |
| Secret joys and secret smiles, | |
| Little pretty infant wiles. | |
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| As thy softest limbs I feel | |
| Smiles as of the morning steal | 10 |
| O'er thy cheek, and o'er thy breast | |
| Where thy little heart doth rest. | |
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| O the cunning wiles that creep | |
| In thy little heart asleep! | |
| When thy little heart doth wake, | 15 |
| Then the dreadful night shall break. | |
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