My Baby Slept--How Calm His Rest, As O'Er His Handsome Face A Smile Like That Of Angel Flitted, While He Lay So Still Upon My Breast! My Baby Slept--His Baby Head Lay All Unkiss'D 'Neath Pall And Shroud: I Did Not Weep Or Cry Aloud-- I Only Wished I, Too, Were Dead! My Baby Sleeps--A Tiny Mound, All Covered By The Little Flowers, Woos Me In All My Waking Hours, Down In The Quiet Burying-Ground. And When I Sleep I Seem To Be With Baby In Another Land-- I Take His Little Baby Hand-- He Smiles And Sings Sweet Songs To Me. Sleep On, O Baby, While I Keep My Vigils Till This Day Be Passed! Then Shall I, Too, Lie Down At Last, And With My Baby Darling Sleep.