Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love (Lullaby)

Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love(Lullaby) - Andreas Schnermann/Ingra Lühning

Lay your sleeping head my love

Human on my faithless arm

Time and fevers burn away

Individual beauty from

Thoughtful children

And the grave

Proves the child ephemeral

But in my arms till break of day

Let the living creature lie

Mortal guilty but to me

The entirely beautiful

Soul and body have no bounds

To lovers as they lie upon

Her tolerant enchanted slope

In their ordinary swoon

Grave the vision Venus sends

Of supernatural sympathy

Universal love and hope

While an abstract insight wakes

Among the glaciers and the rocks

The hermit's come let's to see

Certainty fidelity

On the stroke of midnight pass

Like vibrations of a bell

And fashionable madmen raise

Their pedantic boring cry

Every farthing of the cost

All the dreaded cards foretell

Shall be paid but from this night

Not a whisper not a thought

Not a kiss nor look be lost

Beauty midnight vision dies

Let the winds of dawn that blow

Softly round your dreaming head

Such a day of welcome show

Eye and knocking heart may bless

Find the mortal world enough

Noons of dryness see you fed

By the involuntary powers

Nights of insult let you pass

Watched by every human love