{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie13.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie13.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nSweet dreams form a shade,\n O\u2019er my lovely infants head.\n Sweet dreams of pleasant streams,\n By happy silent moony beams\nSweet sleep with soft down,\n Weave thy brows an infant crown.\n Sweet sleep Angel mild,\n Hover o\u2019er my happy child.\nSweet smiles in the night,\n Hover over my delight.\n Sweet smiles Mothers smiles\n All the livelong night beguiles.\nSweet moans, dovelike sighs,\n Chase not slumber from thy eyes,\n Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,\n All the dovelike moans beguiles.\nSleep sleep happy child.\n All creation slept and smil\u2019d.\n Sleep sleep, happy sleep,\n While o\u2019er thee thy mother weep\nSweet babe in thy face,\n Holy image I can trace.\n Sweet babe once like thee,\n Thy maker lay and wept for me\nWept\nWept for me for thee for all,\n When he was an infant small.\n Thou his image ever see.\n Heavenly face that smiles on thee.\nSmiles on thee on me on all,\n Who became an infant small,\n Infant smiles are his own smiles,\n Heaven & earth to peace beguiles.","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Innocence:...","type":"page"}