"SING ME TO SLEEP."
Few people have failed to hear a song called "Sing Me to -Sleep," yet the name of Edwin Greene, the composer of it, is not known to one in a. thousand, of his hearers. All who like the song, and those isolated ones who do not, will regret to hear that Mr. Greene died last week at Cheltenham at the age of fiftyeight. Incredible as it may seemj about seventy of his songs remain unpublished, although more than a million copies of the famous "hit" have been sold. "Sing Me to Sleep" had a languid and sentimental tone about it, that which one accepts with sympathy as natural to a work born in a hospital ward, as -unhappily was the case. Yet, what a contrast was Henley's Hospital Muse, that rather arrogant invalid who claimed the "captaincy of his own, soul."— T.P.'s Weekly. j
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 11
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