A cradle song

Mary Watson Weaver

O men from the fields,

Come gently within,

Tread softly, softly,

O men, coming in...

For m'mhurnin is going

From me and from you

Where Mary will fold him

With mantle of blue,

From reek of the smoke

And cold of the floor

And peering of things

Across the half-door.

O men from the fields,

Softly, softly come through;

Mary puts round him

Her mantle of blue.