Book 2 — THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN[417:2]
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THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN[417:2]
COPIED FROM A PRINT OF THE VIRGIN IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC VILLAGE IN GERMANY
Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet Quae tam dulcem somnum videt, Dormi, Jesu! blandule! Si non dormis, Mater plorat, Inter fila cantans orat, 5 Blande, veni, somnule. ENGLISH[417:3] Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling: Mother sits beside thee smiling; Sleep, my darling, tenderly! [418]If thou sleep not, mother mourneth, 10 Singing as her wheel she turneth: Come, soft slumber, balmily!
1811.
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Title—In a Roman Catholic] In a Catholic S. L., 1828, 1829.