Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748).
This was published in the Eighth Edition of Watts’s Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children (1727), with the title ‘A Cradle Hymn’. It had 14 stanzas, with the following introduction:
Some Copies of the following Hymn having got abroad already into several Hands, the Author has been perswaded at last to permit it to appear in Publick, at the End of these Divine Songs for Children.
This suggests that this may be the first publication of this text, although it is possible that this preface may have been printed earlier (no edition between the Second and the Eighth is available. See Pafford, 1971,...
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