Dormi, Jesu (Luc Jakobs)

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Editor: Luc Jakobs (added 2007-10-03).   Score information: Unknown, pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal May be freely copied and performed for non-profit use. Please inform the composer of any performances of this work.

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Title: Dormi, Jesu
Composer: Luc Jakobs

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Carols

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2007

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External websites:

• http://www.lucjakobs.nl

Original text and translations

Latin text

Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet,
quae tam dulcem somnum videt,
Dormi, Jesu blandule!

Si non dormis, mater plorat.
Inter fila cantans orat:
Blande veni somnule!

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!

trans­lat­ed Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols: 1400-1700 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), p. 288