- Our American Holidays - Christmas — A Christmas Lullaby
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- A CHRISTMAS LULLABY
- JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
- Sleep, baby, sleep! The Mother sings:
- Heaven's angels kneel and fold their wings.
- Sleep, baby, sleep!
- With swathes of scented hay Thy bed
- By Mary's hand at eve was spread.
- Sleep, baby, sleep!
- At midnight came the shepherds, they
- Whom seraphs wakened by the way.
- Sleep, baby, sleep!
- And three kings from the East afar,
- Ere dawn came, guided by the star.
- Sleep, baby, sleep!
- They brought Thee gifts of gold and gems.
- Pure orient pearls, rich diadems.
- Sleep, baby, sleep!
- But Thou who liest slumbering there,
- Art King of Kings, earth, ocean, air.
- Sleep, baby, sleep!
- Sleep, baby, sleep! The shepherds sing:
- Through heaven, through earth, hosannas ring.
- Sleep, baby, sleep!
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