To Miss Louise Schermerborn.
"Sleep Little Pigeon" (1892)
Japanese Lullaby.
Text by Eugene Field. 
Music by Clark Wright Evans.

Baltimore: Otto Sutro & Co.
[Entered at Stationer's Hall, London]
Engraver: Hounslow N.Y.
[Source: 064/088@Levy]

[1.] Sleep, little pigeons, and fold your wings,— 
Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes; 
Sleep to the singing of motherbird swinging— 
Swinging the nest where her little one lies. 
Away out yonder I see a star,— 
Silvery star with a tinkling song; 
To the soft dew falling I hear it calling— 
Calling and tinkling the night along. 
In through the window a moonbeam comes— 
Little gold moonbeam with misty wings; 
All silently creeping, it asks, “Is he sleeping— 
Sleeping and dreaming while mother sings?” 

[2.] Up from the sea there floats the sob 
Of the waves that are breaking upon the shore, 
As though they were groaning in anguish, and moaning— 
Bemoaning the ship that shall come no more. 
But sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,— 
Little blue pigeon with mournful eyes; 
Am I not singing?— See I am swinging— 
Swinging the nest where my darling lies.