Margrete's cradle song

Now roof and rafters blend

with the starry vault on high,

Now flieth little Hākon

on dreamwings through the sky.

There mounts a mighty stairway

from earth to God's own land

There Hakon with the angels goes

climbing hand in hand.

God's angel-babes are watching

thy cot, the still night through,

God bless thee, little Hakon,

thy mother watcheth too.