To Music

Sir George Dyson (1883-1964)

Charm me asleep and melt me so
With thy delicious numbers;
That being ravished, hence I go
Away in easy slumbers.

Ease my sick head, and make my bed,
Thou power that canst sever
From me this ill, and quickly still
Though thou not kill my fever.

Fall on me like a silent dew,
Or like those maiden showers,
Which, by the peep of day do strew,
A baptism over the flowers.

Melt my pains with thy soft strains
That, having ease me given,
With full delight I leave this light,
And take my flight for Heaven.

This piece was performed on Octarium’s Ode to Music Concert, November 2003.