Living together you and I Create a shelter for our child And all the dangers of the sky And all the terrors of the world We must withstand, we must withhold That he sleep soundly, peacefully Moving together, separately We must reach a single home We must be a unity To be a place where he may come Without distress and without harm And sleep here soundly, peacefully Pull back the net and let me see The marvellous terror of his trust And darling, stand here close to me Who is the owner, who the guest? We two are in a place most blessed He sleeps here soundly, peacefully