The Virgin's cradle hymn (David Greenwood)

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• (Posted 2024-05-07)  CPDL #80545:       

Editor: David Greenwood (submitted 2024-05-07).   Score information: Octavo, 3 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: The Virgin's cradle hymn
Composer: David Greenwood
Lyricist: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2022
Description: Mainly SATB but with some divisi.

Original text and translations

English text

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!