A Lullaby

I'll set you a swing in a purple bell

of the Lady finger,

Where brown bees linger

And loiter long

I'll set you a swing in a fairy dell,

To the silv'ry ring

of a fairy song.

I'll put you afloat in a boat of pearl

On a moonlit sea,

Where your path shall be

Of silver and blue

To fairyland children, sweet girl,

To its rod-strewn strand bathed in glist'ning dew

Bathed in glist'ning dew.

I'll make you a nest, a soft, warm nest,

In my heart's core,

Alanniv ashore

When day is gone,

Where costly curled on mother's breast

My Share o' the world

You'll rest till dawn