Scored for Soprano, Three Wine Glasses, Piano, and Vibraphone

Completed in 2005
Duration: 5 minutes

Premiered April, 2005 in Bloomington, Indiana
Abby Shupe, Soprano and Wine Glasses
Sarah Gibson, Piano
Eric Guinivan, Vibraphone

Cradle Song
By William Blake (1757–1827)

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,  
Dreaming in the joys of night;  
Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep  
Little sorrows sit and weep.  

Sweet babe, in thy face         
Soft desires I can trace,  
Secret joys and secret smiles,  
Little pretty infant wiles.  

As thy softest limbs I feel  
Smiles as of the morning steal  
O'er thy cheek, and o'er thy breast  
Where thy little heart doth rest. 

O the cunning wiles that creep  
In thy little heart asleep!  
When thy little heart doth wake, 
Then the dreadful night shall break.