...music Of my mother's voice in song, As she sung in sweetest accents What I since have often read: " Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed." As I listened, recollections That I thought had been forgot, Came with all the gush of mem'ry, Rushing,...

...cheerful hope : content To take whate'er His gracious will, His all-discerning love, hath sent." 202 USH ! my dear. Lie still, and slumber ! Holy angels guard...blessings, without number, Gently falling on thy head. 203 LITTLE children who are strong and healthy, and able to run about in the happy sunshine, have you...

...derived its power from religious rancor. The cradle hymn which the Puritan mother sang began sweetly, — Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber ! Holy angels guard thy bed ! But after a while the mother thinks of the wickedness of the Jews : — Yet to read the shameful...

...lands, There are flags of every hue, But there is no flag in any land Like our own Red, White, and Blue. Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber! Holy angels...blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. —Watts. THE GOLDEN HULE 'Tis, do to others as you would That they should do to you. All that you...

...You can hear the human dove making its purr of liquid satisfaction as it sits covering its young : Hush ! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed ! Heav'nly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Yet to read the shameful story, How...

...says, in a song of innocence which is thought to have inspired Blake: Sleep, my babe; thy food aod raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment: AH! thy wants are well supplied. From English Institute Essays: 1950, ed. Alan S. Downer (Columbia...

...genius was also capable of writing for children such tender expressions as these: Hush, my dear, be still and slumber. Holy angels guard thy bed; Heavenly...blessings without number gently falling on thy head. Other hymns by Isaac Watts include "Jesus Shall Reign" (No. 48), "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" (No....

...item in the New England Primer by Isaac Watts's "Cradle Hymn." The latter opens with this couplet: "Hush my dear, lie still and slumber./ Holy angels guard thy bed." Those holy angels embody the spirit of the child's loving parents who assure him how near and easy...

...to her child than is that of the Watt's 'Cradle Hymn' against which he seems to have been writing: Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care of payment, All thy wants are well supplied. May'st thou live to know and fear Him, Trust and love...

...how Christ was betrayed, then finally calms herself with thoughts of Christ as savior to her child: Hush, my dear! Lie still, and slumber! Holy angels...blessings, without number, Gently falling on thy head. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be. Was there nothing but a manger Cursed...