Dormi, Jesu

SATB a cappella
Duration: 2.5 Minutes
Text: Latin, English paraphrase by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Year: 2014

Commissioned by: Capitol Hill Chorale
Premiered by: Capitol Hill Chorale, Frederick Binkholder, director, December 6, 2014

Publisher: Siegfried Publishing #KS.045

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  • Dormi, Jesu. Mater ridet
    Quae tam dulcem somnum videt.
    Dormi, Jesu, blandule.

    Si non dormis, Mater plorat.
    Inter fila cantans orat,
    Blande, veni, somnule.

    Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling:
    Mother sits beside thee smiling:
    Sleep, my darling, tenderly!

    If thou sleep not, mother mourneth,
    Singing as her wheel she turneth:
    Come, soft slumber, balmily!