TENNYSON’S REVISIONS.
SWEET AND LOW—THE ORIGINAL VERSION. Bright is the moon on the deep Bright are the cliffs in her beam. Sleep, my little one sleep. Look, he smiles and opens his hands He sees his father in distant lands. And kisses him there in a dream. Sleep, sleep. Father is over the deep; Father will come to thee soon. Sleep, my pretty one. sleep. Father will come to his babe in the nest. Silver sails all out of the West, Under the silver moon. Sleep, sleep. THE FAMILIAR PUBLISHED VERSION. 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 with 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 thee babe in the nest. Silver sails all out of the West, Under the silver moon. Sleep, my little one; sleep, my pretty one, sleep. —From Hallam’s Tennyson Memoir.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue VIII, 19 February 1898, Page 211
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194TENNYSON’S REVISIONS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue VIII, 19 February 1898, Page 211
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