Sleep, O babe, for the red-bee hums The silent twilight's fall: Aibheall from the Grey Rock comes To wrap the world in thrall. A leanbhan O, my child, my joy, My love and heart's-desire, The crickets sing you lullaby Beside the dying fire.
Dusk is drawn, and the Green Man's Thorn Is wreathed in rings of fog: Siabhra sails his boat till morn Upon the Starry Bog. A leanbhan O, the pale half moon Hath brimmed her cusp in dew, And weeps to hear the sad sleep-tune I sing, O love, to you.
Sleep, O babe, for the red-bee hums The silent twilight's fall, Áibheall from the Grey Rock comes To wrap the world in thrall. A leanbhan O, my child, my joy, My love and heart's-desire, The crickets sing you lullaby Beside the dying fire.