TESTO DEL LIED

"Ann's Cradle Song"
di Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

Now silent falls the clacking mill;
Sweet - sweeter smells the briar;
The dew wells big on bud and twig;
The glow-worm's wrapt in fire.
Then sing, lully, lullay, with me,
And softly, lill-lall-lo, love,
'Tis high time, and wild time,
And no time, no, love!
Cries in the brake, bells in the sea:
The moon o'er moor and mountain
Cruddles her light from height to height,
Bedazzles pool and fountain.
Leap, fox; hoot, owl; wail, warbler sweet:
'Tis midnight now's a-brewing;
The fairy mob is all abroad,
And witches at their wooing -
Then sing, lully, lullay, with me,
And softly, lill-lall-lo, love,
'Tis high time, and wild time,
And no time, no, love.