1914
The Sleep That Flits on Baby’s Eyes
Composed by 
John Alden Carpenter
John Alden Carpenter Text by 
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali: Song Offerings Song Collection
"The Sleep That Flits on Baby's Eyes" is the third song in John Alden Carpenter's song cycle Gitanjali: Song Offerings based on the Nobel Prize Winning poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.
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The Sleep That Flits on Baby’s Eyes
by Rabindranath Tagore
The sleep that flits on baby’s eyes,
does anybody know from where it comes?
Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling
where, in the fairy village
among the shadows of the forest
dimly lit with glow-worms,
there hang two timid buds of enchantment.
From there it comes to kiss baby’s eyes.
Related Information
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Sheet Music
Gitanjali
John Alden Carpenter
1. When I Bring to You Colour'd Toys
2. On the Day When Death Will Knock
3. The Sleep That Flits on Baby's Eyes
4. I Am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
5. On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
6. Light, My Light
2. On the Day When Death Will Knock
3. The Sleep That Flits on Baby's Eyes
4. I Am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
5. On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
6. Light, My Light