Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRADLE SONG, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY


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First Line: Madonna, madonna / sat by the grey road-side
Last Line: My baby, my dear son.
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


Madonna, Madonna,
Sat by the gray roadside,
Saint Joseph her beside,
And Our Lord at her breast;
Oh they were fain to rest,
Mary and Joseph and Jesus,
All by the gray roadside.

She said, Madonna Mary,
"I am hungry, Joseph, and weary,
All in the desert wide."
Then bent a tall palm-tree
Its branches low to her knee;
"Behold," the palm-tree said,
"My fruit that shall be your bread."
So were they satisfied,
Mary and Joseph and Jesus,
All by the gray roadside.

From Herod they were fled
Over the desert wide,
Mary and Joseph and Jesus,
In Egypt to abide:
Mary and Joseph and Jesus,
In Egypt to abide.

The blessed Queen of Heaven
Her own dear Son hath given
For my son's sake; his sleep
Is safe and sweet and deep.

Lully . . . Lulley. . . .
So may you sleep alway,
My baby, my dear son:
Amen, Amen, Amen.
My baby, my dear son.





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