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Bishop William F. Anderson has given the story of the writing of the third stanza: When I was Secretary of the Board of Education, 1904–08, I wanted to use "Away in a manger", which I found with the designation "Martin Luther's Cradle Song", in the Children's Day program one year. It had but two stanzas, 1 and 2.
Wiegenlied (Brahms) or Cradle Song, a lied for voice and piano by Johannes Brahms Cradle Song, for organ by Herbert Sumsion "Cradle Song", carol by Richard Causton; An adaptation of the tune for "Sweet Afton", also used sometimes for the song "Away in a Manger"
His work includes a popular arrangement of "Away in a Manger". [3] He helped write "Daisy Deane" in an American Civil War camp. [4] Murray helped produce the singing lesson book The Pacific Glee Book with Frederic Woodman Root. A portrait of him by Jacob Henry Hall is in the Library of Congress. [5] Murray was born to a Scottish family. [6]
"A Cradle Song" is a poem by W. B. Yeats. [1] The earlier version by Yeats was set as a war song by Ivor Gurney (1920). [2] References
A key theme in “A Cradle Song” is the mother's love for her child. The mother uses the word “sweet” ten times in the poem. She makes the infant seem angelic by the way she describes the child. The mother claims her child is “dovelike”, using the dove as a symbol for holiness and love. The woman ties the spiritual world to the physical.
The hymn has been described as the quintessential lullaby carol compared with similar wording lullaby Christmas carols of "Silent Night" and "Away in a Manger" as hymnologists opine that the lyrics and melody both strongly suggest the rocking of a cradle. [5] [needs copy edit]
The carol is associated among Catholics with the tune "Mueller," and with "Cradle Song" among some Protestants. A scan through my hymnal collection shows "Mueller" used in at least one Presbyterian hymnal and one Baptist. The United Church of Christ hymnal I have (an old one) uses "Cradle Song" as do both the Episcopal Church's 1940 and 1982 ...
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." [4]James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second ...