[To?]  Peter Macfarlane
"O! Sweet Be Thy Repose" (1865)
Song/Serenade
Words by George Cooper, 1840-1927
Music by John Rogers Thomas, 1830-1896
Author of
"Beautiful Isle of the Sea," "Dark Eyed Norina,"
"Oh! Why Did You Die" &C. &C.

New York: William A. Pond & Co., 547 Broadway
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co.
Rochester: Joseph P. Shaw
Chicago: Root & Cady
Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted
London: Howood & Crew
Plate No. 6221
[Source: @NYPL]

1. The stars of midnight on the flow’rs. 
Now pour their silver, silver rain. 
The cricket calls the fading hours 
In light in light and merry strain. 
The balmy zephyr bears above 
My parting sigh to thee, 

[REFRAIN sung after each verse]
O! sweet be thy repose my dove, 
O! sweet be thy repose my dove, 
O! sweet be thy repose my dove, 
And be thy dreams of me. 
O! sweet be my repose my dove, 
And be thy dreams of me. 
Be thy dreams of me. 
Be thy dreams of me. 
Be thy dreams of me.

2. The tuneful whisper of the wave 
That creeps, that creeps along the shore. 
And flow’rs the gentle waters lave. 
Now tell now tell thy beauties o’er 
The language of their boundless love 
The stars breathe to the sea.