Sleep, my little Jesus

Sleep, my little Jesus. William Channing Gannett* (1840-1923). Written in 1882 for the Sunday school when Gannett was minister at St Paul, Minnesota, between 1877 and 1883. It was entitled ‘Mary’s Manger Song’. It was published in The Thought of God in hymns and poems, Second Series (Boston, 1894) which Gannett edited with Frederick Lucian Hosmer*. It has three verses, beginning: Sleep, my little Jesus,/ On Thy bed of hay Sleep, my little Jesus /While Thou art my own Sleep my little Jesus/ Wonder-baby mine Each of the three verses emphasises very beautifully the mother's love for the new-born child, though with glimpses of his future destiny in verse 2: Sleep, my little Jesus,While Thou art...