Sweet and Low (poem)

Sweet and Low is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, set as a part-song in 1863 by Sir Joseph Barnby

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Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the best,
Silver sails all out of the west,
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

The title has been reused used many times, notably for the artificial sweetener brand Sweet'n Low. Mary Higgins Clark's 1989 novel While My Pretty One Sleeps takes its title form the first stanza.

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