Dormi Jesu

Latin copied by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) from a print in a German village; date uncertain

Dormi, Jesu, mater ridet
quae tam dulcem somnum videt,
dormi, Jesu, blandule.

Si non dormis, mater plorat
inter fila cantans orat,
blande, veni, somnule.

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