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Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God's Acre lies, / Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies. / Their radiant wings are folded, and their eyes are bended low, / As they sing among the beds whereon the flowers delight to grow, --
"Sleep, oh, sleep! / The Shepherd guardeth His sheep. / Fast speedeth the night away, / Soon cometh the glorious day; / Sleep, weary ones, while ye may, / Sleep, oh, sleep!"