LULLABIES FROM MANY LANDS,

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9921, 5 February 1894, Page 4

LULLABIES FROM MANY LANDS.

DANISH. Sleep, sleep, little mouse ! The field your father ploughs ; Tour mother feeds pigs in the sty, She'll come and slap you when you cry,

CHINESE. Snail, snail, come out and be fed, Put out your horns and then your

- head, And thy mammy will give thee mut

ton, For thou art doubly dear to me.

SPANISH. The moon shines bright, And the snake darts swift and light ; I see five baby bullocks And a calf young and white.

ARABIC. Sleep, my baby, sleep, Sleep a slumber hale. Sweetly rest till morning light, My little farmer boy, so bright.

ZULU. Hush thee, my baby, Thy mother's over the mountain gone, There she will dig the little garden patch, And water she'll fetch from the river.

NORWEGIAN. Row, row to Baltnarock, How many fish are caught in the n»t ? One for father, and one for mother, One for sister and one for brother.

SWEDISH. Hush, bush, baby mine j Pussy climbs tbe biggreen pine : Mother turns the millstone, Father to kill the pig has gone.

GERMAN. Sleep, baby sleep ; Thy father guards the sheep, The mother shakes the dreamland

tree, And from it falls sweet di earns for thee; Sleep, baby, sleep.