Offered here is for a vintage antique 19th century large format sheet music: "Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair", written by Charles E. Eastman, composed by Stephen C. Foster, Published by F. D. Benteen, Baltimore, 1851. A tougher Foster Sheet. This is a nice sheet - from a previously bound volume - thus minor chips along the spine - over all light foxing - old store stamp at bottom center. Any white lines from the edges are reflections on the plastic sleeve the sheet is in.
Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair
Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair,
Her cheek on the pillow pressed,
Sweetly she sleeps, while her Saxon hair,
Like sunlight, streams o’er her breast.
Hush! let her sleep! I pray, sweet breeze,
Breathe low on the maple bough!
Hush! bright bird, on her window trees!
For sweetly she sleepeth now.
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Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair,
Her cheek on the pillow pressed,
Sweetly she sleeps, while her Saxon hair,
Like sunlight, streams o’er her breast.
Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair,
Her cheek like the first May rose,
Sweetly she sleeps, and all her care
Is forgotten in soft repose.
Hush! though the earliest beams of light
Their wings in the blue sea dip.
Let her sleep, I pray, while her dreams are bright,
And a smile is about her lip.
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