XXXVIII + 

Lullaby + 

Lullaby! Lullaby! + 

There’s a tower strong and high + 

Built of oak and brick and stone, + 

Stands before a wood alone. + 

The doors are of the oak so brown + 

As any ale in Oxford town, + 

The walls are builded warm and thick + 

Of the old red Roman brick, + 

The good grey stone is over all + 

In arch and floor of the tower tall. + 

And maidens three are living there + 

All in the upper chamber fair, + 

Hung with silver, hung with pall, + 

And stories painted on the wall. + 

And softly goes the whirring loom + 

In my ladies’ upper room, + 

For they shall spin both night and day + 

Until the stars do pass away. + 

But every night at evèning. + 

The window open wide they fling, + 

And one of them says a word they know + 

And out as three white swans they go, + 

And the murmuring of the woods is drowned + 

In the soft wings’ whirring sound, + 

As they go flying round, around, + 

Singing in swans’ voices high + 

A lonely, lovely lullaby. + 