"Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, And down drops a little dream for thee. Sleep, baby, sleep!"
— Elizabeth Prentiss

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"Cradle Song" (From the German), stanza 1, in Henry T. Coates ed., The Children's Book of Poetry (Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1879), p. 29.