My new grandson is just over seven months old.
I thought I would write a lullaby for him. The first two lines occurred
to me as I was walking home from church today. The poem took the form
above after an afternoon’s work a few final edits.
The lullaby is, of course, dedicated to my
grandson, Tobias René Deimel Flum Wagner. The poem was written
12/31/2023.
I wrote a tune for this lullaby, though it
may have lacked infant appeal. (You can hear that melody
here.) A friend told me of a lullaby her mother
sang using a tune in the Episcopal hymnal. This led me to search a
metrical index for Hymnal 1982. The search led me to
“Coventry Carol,” which is too long and varied but which provided a
backbone for an alternate tune for my poem. Naturally, a lullaby will
not be sung to an infant in four-part harmony, but you can listen to a
four-part rendition on my music for “Lullaby”
here. The melody is
shown below. I finished the
tune 1/3/2024.
— LED,
1/3/2024, rev. 1/4/2024 |
