Josiah Gilbert Holland

Rockaby, Lullaby

Rockaby, lullaby, bees on the clover!—

Crooning so drowsily, crying so low—

Rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover!

Down into wonderland—

Down to the under-land—

Go, oh go!

Down into wonderland, go!


Rockaby, lullaby, rain on the clover!

Tears on the eyelids that struggle and weep!

Rockaby, lullaby—bending it over!

Down on the mother world,

Down on the other world!

Sleep, oh sleep!

Down on the mother-world sleep!


Rockaby, lullaby, dew on the clover!

Dew on the eyes that will sparkle at dawn!

Rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover!

Into the stilly world!

Into the lily world,

Gone! oh gone!

Into the lily world, gone!