To Mrs. A. H. Ohiel,
Prov. R,I.
"Baby sleep, shadows creep
Cradle Song of the Soldier's Wife" [1864]
Poetry by
Miss Helen Cowper Elliott,
Music by
Theodore T. Barker.

Boston, MA: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St.
Cinn.: J. Church Jr.
N.York: W. A. Pond & Co.
Boston: J. C. Haynes & Co.
Phila.: J. E, Gould.
[M 1640
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[Plate no.] 22389
[Engraged by] W.D.
[Source: civilwarsigital.com]

1. Baby sleep! shadows creep
Down the hillside dark and long!
Slumber softly, and thy dreaming
May, perchance, have brighter seeming,
For thy mother’s cradle song!

2. Baby sleep! low I weep,
Lest I wake thee with my woe!
Where the campfires gleam and quiver,
Far away beside the river,—
Father thinks of thee I know!