A school, a teacher and pupils bright,
Lessons and laughter and play,
Girls and boys in their school-day joys,
Maid and youth in their search for truth;
Then home in the shades of the rounded day.
Sleep! sleep! sleep! my baby, sleep!
Christ is the shepherd of His sheep,
And lambs like you to His heart he folds,
And safely holds, all safely holds,
Till the dark night dies in the arms of day,