Dream, baby, dream (Henry Thomas Smart)

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• (Posted 2023-12-08)  CPDL #77960:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 431 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2019-10-20)  CPDL #55685:        

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-10-20).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Dream, baby, dream
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: Bryan Procter

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, with minor Bass divisi.
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 8, no. 247
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English text

1  Dream, baby, dream,
The stars are glowing,
Hear'st thou the stream?
'Tis softly flowing,
All gently glide the hours,
Above no tempest lowers,
Below are fragrant flow'rs,
In silence growing.

2  Dream, baby, dream,
Thine eyelids quiver,
Know'st thou the theme
Of yon soft river?
It saith, "Be calm, be sure,
Unfailing, gentle, pure,
So shall thy life endure
Like mine, for ever."