低俗怪谈 第三季

Penny Dreadful S03E09 大结局的片头摇篮曲"A Prayer"（祷告）至今记忆犹新，惹人哀恸，为悲戚至极的结局奠定基调，最终以华兹华斯的《不朽颂》收尾，凄美诗意萦绕全剧始终：

But there's a Tree, of many, one,

A single field which I have looked upon,

Both of them speak of something that is gone;

The Pansy at my feet

Doth the same tale repeat:

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?

Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

但是，众树中却有一树，

还有我曾打量过的孤独旷野，

他们一起诉说着，某些事物的殄灭：

三色堇在脚边

重复同样的流言：

那如幻的光辉逃到哪里去了?

那荣耀和梦境，现在哪里去了?

"A Prayer"由Tom Kitt作曲，Sophie Meade演唱，部分歌词改编自流行于十八世纪的儿童睡前祷告词"Now I lay me down to sleep"，最早版本可能是Joseph Addison于1711年3月8日发表在《旁观者》杂志(The Spectator)上的一篇文章中：

When I lay me down to Sleep,

I recommend my self to his Care;

when I awake, I give my self up to his Direction.

之后的版本是印刷在《新英格兰启蒙》(The New England Primer)上，这是数百万殖民者和早期美国人的主要教科书，由英国记者本杰明·哈里斯(Benjamin Harris)于1688年首次编译出版，通常被称为“新英格兰小圣经”，但其不仅在新英格兰而且在整个美国殖民地和大不列颠部分地区都广受欢迎：

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord my Soul to keep

If I should die before I 'wake,

I pray the Lord my Soul to take.

"A Prayer"

by Sophie Meade

When I was young

And scared of the world

My mother would sing me a song

A tune that I keep in a sacred place

Because I know that my life won't be long

It tells of the place where you go

When your time here on Earth is through

A beautiful place we call heaven

Is it true?

Please God I pray that it's true

'Cause once this land was heaven on Earth

Green hills were all you could see

But now it's soot and steel and brick

So it looks more like hell to me

And each day brings more and more suffering

And each night is silence and fear

And I wake to the sound of your voice

But you're not here

Why aren't you here?

So now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord

My soul to keep

Please let me die before I wake

So the Lord my soul, can take

Then maybe I'll finally find you

'Midst the beauty of paradise

And you'll sing not of dying

But living

Wouldn't that be nice?

Wouldn't that be nice?