Borodin: The Sleeping Princess

Hush! Hush!
With lovely eyes
Closed in sleep, the princess lies
By a fairy charm enchanted
Doomed to dream in forests haunted:
Hush! Hush!
Pale and wan, as dead she were
Sleeps the princess ever there
Hush! Hush!
Sudden on the silence breaking
Laughing, shouting, merrymaking
Thro' the gloom the woodnymphs sweep
Yet they do not break her sleep
Fast asleep the princess lies
Wrapped in mystery her eyes
By a fairy charm enchanted
Doomed to dream in forests haunted!
Hush! Hush!
Baleful charm and slumber fell:
Will she wake?
Ah, none can tell!
Hush! Hush!