Title: The Sleep that flits on Baby’s Eyes from Gitanjali
Music: John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)
Text: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Free at Art Song Central (PDF files):
- The Sleep that flits on Baby’s Eyes
- Key: D Major
- Range: B3 – D5
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The sleep that flits on baby’s eyes–does anybody know from where it comes? Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling where, in the fairy village among [the] shadows of the forest dimly lit with glow-worms, there hang two timid buds of enchantment. From there it comes to kiss baby’s eyes.
- Recmusic.org has the text.
