Cradle Song (Of Mary's Beloved)

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  My Own Classical Music

  Sarah Wallin Huff

  Written in 2015, Cradle Song (of Mary’s Beloved) is a 3-minute-long work for SATB choir with either brass or woodwind instrumental solo (optional solo parts include Bb Trumpet, Flute, Bb Clarinet, or Horn in F).

  The text, adapted from the 1901 poem of the same name by Patrick K. O’Horan, is a sweet lullaby sung by Mary, mother of Jesus, to her “beloved little One” of the “Holy, Immortal, Ineffable Name.”

  In her gentle song, she promises: “Here is thy mother Close, dearest heart: I shall be with thee When shepherds depart. Sleep, O my little Lord, darling one, sleep.”