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“Cradle Song” is a setting of a William Blake poem that was originally written for the Littleton High School Troubadours and their director Jim Farrell for their performance at the 2011 Colorado Music Educators Association Conference. The piece is for SATB voices and soprano duet.
Text: Sleep beauty bright, dreaming in the joys of night; in thy sleep little sorrow sit and weep. Sweet babe in thy face soft desires I can trace, secret joys and secret smiles, little pretty infant wiles. As thy softest limbs I feel smiles as of the morning steal. O’er thy cheek and o’er thy breast where thy little heart doth rest. O the cunning wiles that creep in thy little heart asleep. When thy little heart doth wake, then the dreadful night shall break.
“Cradle Song” is a setting of a William Blake poem that was originally written for the Littleton High School Troubadours and their director Jim Farrell for their performance at the 2011 Colorado Music Educators Association Conference. The piece is for SATB voices and soprano duet.
Text: Sleep beauty bright, dreaming in the joys of night; in thy sleep little sorrow sit and weep. Sweet babe in thy face soft desires I can trace, secret joys and secret smiles, little pretty infant wiles. As thy softest limbs I feel smiles as of the morning steal. O’er thy cheek and o’er thy breast where thy little heart doth rest. O the cunning wiles that creep in thy little heart asleep. When thy little heart doth wake, then the dreadful night shall break.
