GREECE.

OW may’st thou take sweet sleep, my babe, now
may’st thou go to sleep ;
The Holy Virgin and the Christ be near thee night

and day ;

The Holy Virgin and the Christ, and great St. John, too,
‘ keep

Their watch upon thy life, and take thy every pain
away.

lll give thee Chios—if thou sleep—with many a lemon-
tree,

Yea, Venice with her florins too, that thou may’st rule
them all;

And if thou sleep, belovéd babe, I'll give thee townships
three,

Three townships and three villages, yea, and three
churches small ;
That in the villages may’st dine, and sleep in these thy
_ towns,
And to thy little churches go, to hear while mass be said.

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