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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Devotional for the Seventh Day of Christmas

Japanese print (Chinese style) of Madonna & Child, early 18th c.
 December 31st – Seventh Day of Christmas

I Saw a Sweet and Silly Sight

I saw a sweet (and) silly sight,
A blissful bride, a blossom bright
    That mourning made and mirth among.
A maiden mother, meek and mild,
In cradle kept a knavë child
    That softly slept; she sat and sang.

"Lullay, lullow, lully, lullay, lully, lully, lully, lully, lully,
    Lullow, lully, lullay, baw, baw,
    My bairn, sleep softly now."


Words: English Traditional, Fifteenth Century.  Source: Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols: 1400-1700 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914),   p. 59.

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