Lullaby from Three Nocturnes by Daniel Elder

Magnum Chorum conducted by Dwight Jilek, with Tim Strand, piano. Recorded live at Nativity of our Lord Catholic Church, St. Paul, MN, on March 3, 2019.
"Lullaby" from Three Nocturnes by Daniel Elder. GIA Publications, Inc, publisher. Used with permission.
Text by Daniel Elder
Lullaby, sing lullaby,
the day is far behind you.
The moon sits high atop the sky,
now let sweet slumber find you.
Away,
the day is done, and gone the sun
that lit the world so brightly.
The earth’s glow with speckled show
of twinkling stars so sprightly.
Away,
where the sunlight is beaming
through a deep, cloudless blue,
and the treetops are gleaming
with a fresh morning dew;
where the mountains are shining
at the meadows below,
in a brilliant white lining
of a new-fallen snow.
Close your eyes,
breathe in the night;
a softer bed I’ll make you.
The trial is done, all danger gone;
now let far dreaming take you.
Away,
where the ocean is lapping
at a soft, pearly shore,
and the swaying palms
napping as their swinging fronds soar.
Now the dark night approaches,
yet so soft and so mild.
Lullaby, sing lullaby;
Sleep now, my child.
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