Laura Martin's Lullabies

Laura Martin (1950); Scottish, Irish, Welsh.  Ann Arbor – "I loved the house where we lived. There was a big cornfield and  Daphne bush.... Sleep comes to me in a blue. I sing to myself if I cannot fall asleep." 

All Through Night

Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee

All through the night

Guardian angels God will send thee

All through the night

Soft the drowsy hours are creeping

Hill and dale in slumber sleeping

I my loving vigil keeping

All through the night.

While the moon her watch is keeping

All through the night,

While the weary world is sleeping

All through the night,

O'er thy spirit gently stealing

Visions of delight revealing

Breathes a pure and holy feeling

All through the night

Though I roam a minstrel lonely

All through the night

My true harp shall praise sing only

All through the night

Love's young dream, alas, is over

Yet my strains of love shall hover

Near the presence of my lover

All through the night

Hark, a solemn bell is ringing

Clear through the night

Thou, my love, art heavenward winging

Home through the night

Earthly dust from off thee shaken

Soul immortal shalt thou awaken

With thy last dim journey taken

Home through the night.

The Turtle Dove by Ralph Vaughan William

Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone,
And leave you for a while;
If I roam away I'll come back again,
Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear,
Though I roam ten thousand miles.

So fair thou art, my bonny lass,
So deep in love am I;
But I never will prove false to the bonny lass I love,
Till the stars fall from the sky, my dear,
Till the stars fall from the sky.

The sea will never run dry, my dear,
Nor the rocks melt with the sun,
But I never will prove false to the bonny lass I love,
Till all these things be done, my dear,
Till all these things be done.

O yonder doth sit that little turtle dove,
He doth sit on yonder high tree,
A-making a moan for the loss of his love,
As I will do for thee, my dear,
As I will do for thee.

One Grain of Sand by Pete Seeger

One grain of sand,
One grain of sand in all the world.
One grain of sand,
One little boy, one little girl.
One grain of sand,
One little star up in the sky.
One grain of sand,
One little you, one little I.
One grain of sand,
One drop of water in the sea.
One grain of sand,
One little you, one little me.
One grain of sand,
One leaf of grass--on a windy plain.
One grain of sand,
We come and go again and again, again.
I love you so,
I love you so, I love you so.
I love you so,
More than you will ever, ever, ever, ever, ever know.
One grain of sand,
One little snowflake lost in the swirling storm.
One grain of sand,
I'll hold you alone and keep you warm.
One grain of sand,
One grain of sand on an endless shore.
One grain of sand,
One little life, who'd ask for more.
One grain of sand,
One grain of sand, one grain of sand,
One grain of sand,
One grain of sand, one grain of sand,
One grain of sand,
One little star up in the blue.
One grain of sand,
One little me, one little you.

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