New and Revised Edition.
"O! Sweet Be Thy Repose" ([1865;] 1872)
[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.
Alto or Baritone in F. Soprano in Ab.

New York: William A. Pond & Co., 547 Broadway
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co.
Rochester: Joseph P. Shaw
Chicago: Root & Cady
Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted
London: Hopwood & Crew.
Plate No. 8216
[Source: 1872-06611@LoC
compare original 1865 version, 
Plate No. 6221 (@NYPL)]

1. The stars of midnight on the flow’rs 
Now pour their silver, silver rain. 
The nightbird 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 thy repose my dove, 
And 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 thy boundless love 
The stars breathe to the sea.