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No. 9. Sleeping, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'

Greenaway, Kate, 1881, Publisher's print
No. 9. Sleeping, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
No. 9. Sleeping, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
No. 9. Sleeping, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
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Item no
40029
Title
No. 9. Sleeping, an illustrated page from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
Description
A young woman sits in profile on a blue chair holding a sleeping baby on her lap. She wears a long green dress, a necklace and a simple mob cap. The baby too wears a similar cap, and a long white gown. On either side are two foxglove stems, one white, one pink - and below is the music for the ninth piece, Sleeping - a piano accompaniment and melody line. The words are as follows:
'1. Lullaby, lullaby, baby dear,
Take thy rest without a fear;
Quiet sleep, for mother is here,...
Ever wakeful ever near -
[For each of the three verses the words continue with the rest of the music on the following page.]

2. Lullaby, lullaby, gone is the light,
Yet let not darkness my baby fright,
Mother is with her amid the night;...
Then softly sleep, my heart's delight,-

3. May thy small dreams no ill things see,
Kind heaven keep watch, my babe, o'er thee,
Kind angels bright thy guardians be,...
And give thee, smiling, today and to me, -'
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Date
1881
Size
24.8 x 21.0 cm
Location
Art and Design Library