A Lullaby - Audra McDonald

Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be:

Now like a still wind, a great tree

Night upon this city moves

Like leaves, our hungers and our loves

Sleep, rest easy, while you may

Soon it is day

And elsewhere likewise love is stirred:

Elsewhere the speechless song is heard:

Wherever children sleep or wake

Souls are lifted, hearts break

Sleep, be careless while you can

Soon you are man

And everywhere good men contrive

Good reasons not to be alive

And even should they build their best

No man could bear tell you the rest

Sleep child, for your parents' sake

Soon you must wake