The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn

The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn

[Copied from a print of the Virgin in a Catholic village in Germany.]

Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet
Quae tarn dulcem somnum videt,
Dormi, Jesu! blandule!
Si non dormis, Mater plorat,
Inter fila cantans orat,
Blande, veni, somnule.

ENGLISH

Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling:
Mother sits beside thee smiling;
Sleep, my darling, tenderly!
If thou sleep not, mother mourneth,
Singing as her wheel she turneth:
Come, soft slumber, balmily!

1811.

-THE END-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn

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