Between the ox and the grey donkey | Soft on the hay in a cattle shed

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Alexandra Glynn

Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: DUT ENG

Entre le bœuf et l’âne gris
Dort, dort, dort le petit fils
Mille anges divins, mille séraphins
Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]¹ d’amour.

Entre les deux bras de Marie
Dort, dort, dort le fruit de vie
Mille anges divins, mille séraphins
Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]¹ d’amour.

Entre les roses et les lys
Dort, dort, dort le petit fils
Mille anges divins, mille séraphins
Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]¹ d’amour.

Entre les pastoureaux jolis
Dort, dort, Jésus qui sourit
Mille anges divins, mille séraphins
Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]¹ d’amour.

En ce beau jour si solennel
Dort, dort, dort l’Emmanuel
Mille anges divins, mille séraphins
Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]¹ d’amour.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• P. Ayres

P. Ayres sets stanzas 1-3, 5

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¹ Ayres: "ce dieu"

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text checked 1 time 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):

by Paul Ayres (b. 1970), "Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris", stanzas 1-3,5 [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jurriaan Grootes , "Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris" [ chorus ], arrangement of a 13th-century song [sung text checked 1 time]
by Willem Pijper (1894 - 1947), "Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris", 1918, published [1919] [ medium voice and piano ], from Noëls de France, arrangement et accompagnement de piano de Willem Pijper, no. 8, Utrecht, Éd. De Haan [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Finnish (Suomi), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist.
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This text was added to the website: 2016-07-05
Line count: 20
Word count: 126

Between the ox and the grey donkey

Language: English after the French (Français)

Soft on the hay in a cattle shed,
Slumber in a manger bed.
Lullay, little boy, purity and joy,
Everlasting love that I longed to see.

Mary embraces the little one.
Slumber, God’s beloved son.
Lullay, little boy, purity and joy,
Everlasting love that I longed to see.

Sweetly, where roses and lilies twine,
Slumber, Lord and King divine.
Lullay, little boy, purity and joy,
Everlasting love that I longed to see.
 


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Briars and thorns in a wreath are wound.
Slumber, you shall wear a crown.
Lullay, little boy, purity and joy,
Everlasting love that I longed to see.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2016-07-05
Line count: 17
Word count: 100