Alto Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.989248 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. Celtic,Concert,Spiritual. 4 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6253379. Published by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter (A0.989248). Setting of an Irish poem by the Irish poet, Padriac Colum.  It is a portrait of a child sleeping, and women in the cottage telling them O men from the fields, come gently within....tread softly.... Mary is putting round him her mantle of blue.  The song is a kind of lullaby based on pentatonic/modal scales and is gentle, sweet, but not sentimental.