Stephen Paxton
(1734 - 1787)

Sweet sleep
(T.T.B.)
Full score (PDF), €0.40 for a single copy   Buy this item
Choir offer (PDF), €2.00 for 9 copies   Buy this item
Printable cover page (PDF), €0.00 for unlimited copies   Download this item

If you have any problem obtaining a PDF, please see our help page. If that does not resolve the issue, please click here.
Page 1 of 4
For licensing/copyright information please click here
From A Collection of Glees and Catches, London, 1782.
Lyrics: Anon, probably the composer

Sweet sleep, tho' image of the dead,
Yet come, be partner of my bed.
Haste balmy sleep, I long, I sigh,
That bliss ecstatic soon to try;
In death to live, in life to die.