Slumber, Sweetly Slumber

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

Cradled in a manger, On the fragrant hay (DeArmond)

Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Tune: [Cradled in a manger, On the fragrant hay]
Published in 3 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Cradled in a manger,
On the fragrant hay,
Wrapped in peaceful slumber,
Baby Jesus lay.

Refrain:
Slumber, sweetly slumber,
While angels hover near,
Slumber, sweetly slumber,
Thou Thought of God so dear.
Slumber on, slumber on,
Thou Holy Babe.

2 Happy be Thy slumbers,
While sweet lullabies,
Sung by shining angels,
Echo through the skies. [Refrain]

3 Sleep, dear baby Jesus,
Love shall make the night
Full of joy and gladness,
Bright with heaven’s light. [Refrain]

Source: Uplifted Voices: a 20th century hymn book for sunday-schools and devotional meetings #173

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Lizzie DeArmond

Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Cradled in a manger, On the fragrant hay (DeArmond)
Title:	Slumber, Sweetly Slumber
Author:	Lizzie DeArmond
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Slumber, sweetly slumber
Copyright:	Public Domain