SUNG BY
Theodor Habelmann.
[Cover page: "Sleep well, sweet Angel!"]
[Title page:] "SLEEP WELL! SWEET ANGEL!" (1864)
[SCHLAF WOHL, DU SU:SSER ENGEL DU.]
song.
BY
Franz Abt. [Op: 213.]
[Franz Wilhelm Abt, 1819-1885]
[SOPRANO or TENOR]
[MEZZO SOPRANO or] ALTO

New York: Beer & Schirmer, 701 Broadway
Philadelphia: LEE & WALKER
Plate No. 393
Eng'd. at Clayton's.
[Source: 131/110@Levy]

1. The bells are hush’d, the world is still,
The sounds of toil are heard no more,
The bird has ceas’d his tuneful song,
And heav’n with stars is spangled o’er.

[REFRAIN sung after verses 1 and 2]
Sleep well, sleep well,
And let thy lovely eyelids close,
sleep well, sleep well,
dear angel, sweet be thy repose.

2. Oh! didst thou think of me today?
The tho’t of thee my heart could fill,
And now, to breathe a fond good night,
Beside thy door I linger still.

3. There comes to thee from heav’nly realms,
a holy messenger to night,
He brings you bright and peaceful dreams,
till you awake in morning’s light,
[REFRAIN]
sleep well, sleep well,
and let thy lovely eyelids close,
sleep well, sleep well,
dear angel, sweet by thy repose.
Sleep well, dear angel, sweet by thy repose.