“In a dream late as I lay,
Methought I heard a maiden say
And speak these words so mild:
‘My little son, with thee I play,
And come,’ she sang, ‘by, lullaby.’
Thus rockëd she her child.
By-by, lullaby, by-by, lullaby,
Rockëd I my child.
By-by, by-by, by-by, lullaby,
Rockëd I my child. ”[{36}]
CHAPTER III
CHRISTMAS POETRY (II)
The French Noël—Latin Hymnody in Eighteenth-century France—Spanish Christmas Verse—Traditional Carols of Many Countries—Christmas Poetry in Protestant Germany—Post-Reformation Verse in England—Modern English Carols.
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS.
By Fouquet.