"Sweet Dreams Be Thine" (1879)
Ballad
Words by George Cooper, 1840-1927
Music by John Rogers Thomas, 1830-1896

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company
Philadelphia: J. E. Ditson & Co.
New York: C. H. Ditson & Co.
Chicago: Lyon & Healy
San Francisco: Sherman, Hyde & Co.
New Orleans: L. Grunewalk
Memphis: H. G. Hollenberg
Baltimore: Otto Sutro
Music Printer: J. Frank Giles, Boston
[no plate number]
[Source: 1879-01821@LoC]

1. Sweet dreams be thine! 
Tho’ dark the night, 
Sleep fold thee round in golden spendor; 
Soft be the rest— the calm delight,— 
Borne to thy heart in visions tender! 
Roam far away to yonder skies,— 
And leave the strife, the pain, the care; 
Awake, my own! To loving eyes, 
When dawns the day so blushing fair! 
Sweet dreams be thine! 
Sweet dreams be thine.

 2. Sweet dreams be thine! 
And joys be thine, 
Day, gladsome day, can never bring thee! 
Hope’s star above, for thee now shine; 
Songs of the blest may angels sing thee! 
Love watches, now, thy couch beside, 
And waits to glad thy waking eyes; 
Awake, my own! 
When starbeams hide, 
And earthward roam from yonder skies! 
Sweet dreams be thine! 
Sweet dreams be thine.