Words of Dum virgo
vagientem, versified by George
Ratcliffe Woodward
Tune of Ein Kindlein in der wiegen
(Corner's Nachtigall,
1649),
Harmonized by Charles Wood.
Notes and Source: George
Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas,
Easter, and Ascensiontide, Second Series (London: A. R. Mowbray &
Co., Ltd, ca. 1919), Carol #90, and
George Radcliffe Woodward, ed, Songs of Syon (London:
Schott & Co., Third Edition, 1908), #426
1. I heard an Infant weeping,
And
yearning sore for rest;
But, ere he fell alseeping,
Thus sung
his Mother blest:
Babe Jesu, lullaby!
2. My Lamb, from God
forth-faring,
My Life, my guiding Star,
Fair Lily, of my
bearing,
Than jewel rarer far:
Babe Jesu, lullaby!
3. Jesu, more sweet than honey,
My
fountain of delight,
Beyond the worth of money,
The Dayspring
from the height.
Babe Jesu, lullaby!
4. O joyaunce of thy Mother,
Her
heart's-ease, all in all,
Creator, Son and Brother,
Hear Mary's
madrigall:
Babe Jesu, lullaby!
5. Whereto the ox is lending
The
tenor to mine air,
And ass his voice is blending,
The burden
for to bear.
Babe Jesu, lullaby!
6. But if thou world'st a
sweeter
And more melodious chang,
To mend our faulty metre,
Bid
Angels make descant.
Babe Jesu, lullaby!
Sheet Music from George
Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas,
Easter, and Ascensiontide, Second Series (London: A. R. Mowbray &
Co., Ltd, ca. 1919), Carol #90
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