Lullaby

Sleep, lovely white soul!

The little mouse cheeps plaintively,

The nightbird in the chestnut tree -

They sing together, bird and mouse,

In starlight, in darkness, lonely, sweet,

The wild notes and the faint notes meet -

Sleep, lovely white soul!

Amid the lilies floats the moth;

The mole along his galleries goeth

In the dark earth; the summer moon

Looks like a shepherd through the pane

Seeking his feeble lamb again -

Sleep, lovely white soul!

Time comes to keep night-watch with thee,

Nodding with roses; and the sea

Saith 'Peace, peace!' amid his foam.

'O be still!'

The wind cries up the whispering hill -