by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Ah, my dear, ah, my dear son!
Language: English
‘Ah, my dear, ah, my dear son!’ Said Mary: ‘Ah my dear; Kiss thy mother, Jesu, With a laughing cheer.’ This enders night I saw a sight All in my sleep: Mary, that may, she sang lullay And sore did weep. To keep she sought full fast about Her son fro cold: Joseph said, ‘Wife, my joy, my life, Say what ye would.’ ‘Nothing, my spouse, is in this house Unto my pay; My Son, a king, that made all thing, Lieth in hay.’ ‘My mother dear, amend your cheer, And now be still: Thus for to lie, it is soothly My Father’s will. Derision, great passion, Infinitely, As it is found, many a wound Suffer shall I. On Calvary that is so high, There shall I be, Man to restore, nailed full sore Upon a tree.’
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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This text was added to the website: 2014-06-23
Line count: 28
Word count: 137