Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CAROL OF JESUS CHILD, by FRANCIS MACNAMARA


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CAROL OF JESUS CHILD, by                    
First Line: What danger, mary ...'
Last Line: "by-by, lullay."
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth


"What danger, Mary,
Imaging,
To those infant cries
So quick dost spring?"

The lovely lady
She rocked His bed,
She laughed to herself
And, singing, said:

"Lullay, my love,
By-by, lullay,
I fear the darkness,
I fear the day;
A body so quaint
With heaviness
(By-by, lullay)
The air might press.
The ground such lightness
Beneath might rise,
And my flooring sweet
Throw in surprise.
Danger is waiting
By hearth and by way,
Lullay, my Love,
By-by, lullay."

"If soldiers bristled
In all the trees
And a tempest each morn
Were hid in the breeze:
No harm could threaten,
Nor hatred wrong,
The child who is kept
For sufferings long.
Who are born to sorrow
God guards well aye."

"Lullay, my Darling,
By-by, lullay."





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