Lyrics Care-Charming Sleep - Iestyn Davies, Thomas Dunford, Jonathan Manson

Care-Charming Sleep

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose
On this afflicted prince;
fall like a cloud
In gentle showers;
give nothing that is loud
Or painful to his slumbers;
easy, sweet,
And as a purling stream, thou son of Night,
Pass by his troubled senses;
sing his pain,
Like hollow murmuring wind or silver rain;
Into this prince gently, oh gently slide,
And kiss him into slumbers like a bride.