StoryTitle("caps", "A Cradle Hymn") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Holy angels guard thy bed!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heavenly blessings without number", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gently falling on thy head.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "House and home, thy friends provide;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All without thy care or payment:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All thy wants are well supplied.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How much better thou'rt attended", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than the Son of God could be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When from heaven He descended", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And became a child like thee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soft and easy is thy cradle:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When His birthplace was a stable ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And His softest bed was hay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blesséd babe! what glorious features—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spotless fair, divinely bright!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Must He dwell with brutal creatures?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How could angels bear the sight? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was there nothing but a manger", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Curséd sinners could afford", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To receive the heavenly stranger?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Did they thus affront their Lord?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soft, my child: I did not chide thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though my song might sound too hard;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis thy mother sits beside thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her arms shall be thy guard.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet to read the shameful story", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How the Jews abused their King, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How they served the Lord of Glory,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Makes me angry while I sing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See the kinder shepherds round Him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Telling wonders from the sky!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where they sought Him, there they found Him, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With His Virgin mother by.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See the lovely babe a-dressing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lovely infant, how He smiled!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When He wept, the mother's blessing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Soothed and hush'd the holy child. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lo, He slumbers in His manger,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the hornéd oxen fed:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Peace, my darling; here's no danger,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Here's no ox anear thy bed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Twas to save thee, child, from dying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Save my dear from burning flame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bitter groans and endless crying,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That thy blest Redeemer came.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May'st thou live to know and fear Him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trust and love Him all thy days; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then go dwell for ever near Him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "See His face, and sing His praise!", "") ?>
Poet("Isaac Watt", "1674–1748") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>