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Here are a few stanzas from a Bergamesque cradle-song of the Blessed Virgin: --
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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He looked so happy as he talked of that Divine love, changeless throughout all time, throughout all eternity -- a love that never forsakes, that lulls the weary like a cradle-song, a love that satisfies even the secret longings!
Beth Woodburn Maud Petitt
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Wollust should be represented by a Wagnerian Venusberg-music; the obvious way to represent Pleasure was by writing pleasant music, and with Bach's ideas of pleasance the step from this to the solemn beauty of the sacred cradle-song was a mere matter of change of colour and _tempo_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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When we come to the eighteenth century we find, where we might least expect it, among the moral verses of Dr. Watts, a charming cradle-song conceived in just the same way: -- | 84 |
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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His voice sounded sweet and soft as honey: it was like a cradle-song to a tired child.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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No amount of "Umarbeitung" could, for instance, turn the aria of Hercules into the Virgin's cradle-song, or
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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A little thread of melody stole out, a rill of tremulous motion; it was the cradle-song with which she rocked her baby; -- how could she sing that?
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Grace, indeed, having them mingled with her mother's cradle-song, would scarcely like to have missed the familiar sounds, since they had lulled her to sleep at night, and awoke her in the dawn.
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It is no doubt a shock to our feelings to find that Wollust's aria became the Virgin's cradle-song, while Hercules's reply became the alto aria in which Zion is bidden to "prepare for the Bridegroom."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Hushed as by cradle-song, every harassing emotion subsides.
Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee
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