Fair is the castle up on the hill--
 Hushaby, sweet my own!
The night is fair, and the waves are still,
And the wind is singing to you and to me
In this lowly home beside the sea--
 Hushaby, sweet my own!

On yonder hill is store of wealth--
 Hushaby, sweet my own!
And revellers drink to a little one's health;
But you and I bide night and day
For the other love that has sailed away--
 Hushaby, sweet my own!

See not, dear eyes, the forms that creep
 Ghostlike, O my own!
Out of the mists of the murmuring deep;
Oh, see them not and make no cry
Till the angels of death have passed us by--
 Hushaby, sweet my own!

Ah, little they reck of you and me--
 Hushaby, sweet my own!
In our lonely home beside the sea;
They seek the castle up on the hill,
And there they will do their ghostly will--
 Hushaby, O my own!

Here by the sea a mother croons
 "Hushaby, sweet my own!"
In yonder castle a mother swoons
While the angels go down to the misty deep,
Bearing a little one fast asleep--
 Hushaby, sweet my own!