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Thread #29346   Message #370493
Posted By: Margaret V
07-Jan-01 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Lullaby - Late 17thc. American
Subject: RE: Lullaby - Late 17thc. American
Poet Anne Bradstreet (of Puritan Massachusetts) mentions singing lullabies in her poem "The Four Ages of Man," published in 1650. An excerpt:

With wayward cries, I did disturb her rest;
Who sought still to appease me, with her breast.
With weary armes, she danced, and Bye, Bye, sung,
When wretched I (ungrate) had done the wrong.

Sorry I can't be more specific. Margaret