Le sommeil de l’Enfant Jésus

Composition Details

Conductor Notes:

A stunning and simple SSA a cappella arrangement of “Entre le boeuf et l’ane gris”. Highly recommended. In 2016, we used it as a processional, repeating to the top before taking the “coda” of the last line of the piece and giving the repeated opening verse to a semichorus.

Entre le boeuf et l’âné gris,
Dors, dors, dors le petit fils:
Mille anges divins,
Mille séraphins,
Volent à l’entour de ce grand Dieu d’amour.

Entre les roses et les lys,
Dors, dors, dors le petit fils:
Mille anges divins…

Entre les pastoureaux jolis
Dors, dors, dors le petit fils:
Mille anges divins…

Translation:

Here ‘mid the ass and oxen mild,
Sleeps, sleeps, sleeps the little child;
A thousand seraphim
A thousand cherubim
Come from heaven above, to praise the Lord of love.

Between the roses and lilies,
Sleeps, sleeps, sleeps the little child;
A thousand seraphim…

Here among the friendly shepherds,
Sleeps, sleeps, sleeps the little child;
A thousand seraphim…