From the musical “Babes in Toyland”, 1903.
Words by Glen MacDonough.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- See that shadow sway
That is nothing dear
You must near me stay
I am watching here
Hark! the fairies call
No, that cannot be
See that ogre tall
‘Tis a cypress tree
A FAIRY
Go to sleep! Slumber deep
Little one, oh sleep while watch I keep
Dream and rest, That is best
Till you hear the morning song
From bough and nest
- Look, what’s passing by
I can nothing see
I could really cry
Come then close to me
Is the morning near?
‘Tis not far away
Much the night I fear
Soon will dawn the day
Sung here by Vancha March: