Sleep - 1920

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dream
beguile all my fancies;
That from thence I may feel an influence
All my powers of care bereaving!
Though but a shadow, but a sliding,
Let me know some little joy!
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought
Through an idle fancy wrought:
O let my joys have some abiding!
O let my joys have some abiding!

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Sleep 1920
Music by Ivor Gurney
Lyric by John Fletcher
copyright 1920 by Winthrop Rogers Ltd.
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Friday 11 Jan 2002 at 08.14
in association with Doug Grierson
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