the tempest softly cradles me, as in her hammock sways a queen.

Scarcely ever has woman, born to such beauty and witchery, been cradled less auspiciously.

In some children it is blended with the earliest, haziest recollection of life at all, as though they had been literally 'cradled in sweet song;' and we may be sure that the hearing of musical sounds and singing in association with others are for the child, as for the adult, powerful influences in awakening sympathetic emotion, and pleasure in associated action.

He can give a chapter or so to "Ancestry," and then relate the adventures of his hero from the cradle onwards.

It ain't much, but the good soul stood by me, and I ain't ashamed to pay my debts this way, sence I can't do it in no other;" and Joe cradled the chubby baby in his one arm as tenderly as if it had been his own, though little Biddy was not an inviting infant.