"Hush a by Baby (ret.)" © 2000 wood engraving (ed. 35) image: 4 x 3 in. $130.00 (go to "Hi There" for purchase information)
I'll never forget the first nursery rhyme which disturbed me. I worried about that neglected baby, left up in a tree, who would come crashing to the ground when the branch broke. I couldn't understand why a mother would hang a cradle in a tree, put a baby in it and take the chance of a severe wind breaking the limb and having the baby fall from that height (I had my grandparents' tall cottonwood tree in mind when I visualized that rhyme).
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HUSH A BY BABY Hush a by Baby On the Tree Top. When the Wind blows The Cradle will rock; When the Bough breaks The Cradle will fall, Down tumbles Baby, Cradle and all. |