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

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.