Songs of Innocence and Experience

<h3><SPAN name="11">A CRADLE SONG</SPAN></h3> Sweet dreams, form a shade<br/> O&#8217;er my lovely infant&#8217;s head!<br/> Sweet dreams of pleasant streams<br/> By happy, silent, moony beams! <br/><br/>Sweet Sleep, with soft down<br/> Weave thy brows an infant crown!<br/> Sweet Sleep, angel mild,<br/> Hover o&#8217;er my happy child! <br/><br/>Sweet smiles, in the night<br/> Hover over my delight!<br/> Sweet smiles, mother&#8217;s smiles,<br/> All the livelong night beguiles. <br/><br/>Sweet moans, dovelike sighs,<br/> Chase not slumber from thy eyes!<br/> Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,<br/> All the dovelike moans beguiles. <br/><br/>Sleep, sleep, happy child!<br/> All creation slept and smiled.<br/> Sleep, sleep, happy sleep,<br/> While o&#8217;er thee thy mother weep. <br/><br/>Sweet babe, in thy face<br/> Holy image I can trace;<br/> Sweet babe, once like thee<br/> Thy Maker lay, and wept for me: <br/><br/>Wept for me, for thee, for all,<br/> When He was an infant small.<br/> Thou His image ever see,<br/> Heavenly face that smiles on thee! <br/><br/>Smiles on thee, on me, on all,<br/> Who became an infant small;<br/> Infant smiles are His own smiles;<br/> Heaven and earth to peace beguiles. <hr width="150"><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />