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Ēriks Ešenvalds - Only in Sleep
 
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Only in Sleep

Ēriks Ešenvalds —

by Ēriks Ešenvalds. Sung by Trinity College Choir Cambridge

"Only in sleep I see their faces, 
Children I played with when I was a child, 
Louise comes back with her brown hair braided, 
Annie with ringlets warm and wild. 
Only in sleep Time is forgotten — 
What may have come to them, who can know? 
Yet we played last night as long ago, 
And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair. 
The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces, 
I met their eyes and found them mild — 
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder, 
And for them am I too a child?"