"the loud hills shake with mountain-mirth / As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth"

[larryhammer]

A new-to-me song variation I rather like:

Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fly
And up will go baby into the sky.

Reactions to this are running about 3:1 liking versus finding scary.

Every week, Pop Sonnets posts a new translation of a pop song into an Elizabethan sonnet -- such as "Let It Go," "Don't Stop Believing," and "Baby Got Back." (via)

Deeply researched historical maps. (via)

Kitty-porn, Edo-period woodcuts edition. (via)

---L.

Subject slightly quoted from "Childe Harold's Pilgramage" iii.93.8-9, Byron.

Comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I don't find that any more scary than the original, and kind of . . . well, "uplifting" is a terrible pun, but you know what I mean. There might be something awesome happening to that baby!

[larryhammer]

That's what the majority take from it.

---L.

[sovay]

When the bough breaks, the cradle will fly
And up will go baby into the sky.

When I was very small, my mother simply adjusted the original folksong to read ". . . the cradle will fall / And Mama will catch you, cradle and all."

[larryhammer]

Ah, the adjustments we make on the fly. As far as TBD knows, Peter Pumpkin-eater's wife "went to live in a pumpkin shell / and there she kept her very well."

OTOH, "We Shall Overcome" needs no adjustments to work as a lullaby, as I discovered last night.

---L.