Musical Works - Woo 7.

• The Siesta. Song.

  Dedication: For Mr Edward Lloyd

Words (from the Spanish) by W. Cullen Bryant

Airs that wander and murmur round,
Bearing delight where'er ye blow!
Make in the elms a lulling sound,
While my lady sleeps in the shade below.

Lighten and lengthen her noonday rest,
Till the heat of the noonday sun is o'er
Sweet be her slumbers! though in my breast
The pain she has waked may slumber no more.

Breathing soft from the blue profound,
Bearing delight where'er ye blow;
Make in the elms a lulling sound,
While my lady sleeps in the shade below.

Make in the elms a lulling sound
While my lady, my lady sleeps in the shade below.

Airs! that over the bending boughs,
And under the shade of pendent leaves,
Mur mur soft like my timid vows,
Or the secret sighs my bosom heaves,

Gently sweeping the grassy ground;
Bearing delight where'er ye blow
Make in the elms a lulling sound,
While my lady sleeps in the shade below;

Make in the elms a lulling sound
While my lady, my lady sleeps in the shade below.

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