A Lullaby

I'll set you a-swing in a purple bell

Of the lady finger

Where brown bees linger

And loiter long

I'll set you a-swing in a fairy dell

To the silv'ry ring

Of a fairy song



I'll put you afloat in a boat of pearl

On a moonlit sea

Where your path shall be

Of silver and blue

To fairyland children, sweet girl

To its rode-strewn strand bathed in glistining dew

Bathed in glist'ning dew



I'll make you a nest, a soft, warm nest

In my heart's core

Alanniv ashore

When day is gone

Where cosily curled on mother's breast

My share o' the world

You'll rest till dawn




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