 The verse accompanied an image titled "The Virgin Sewing While Angels Rock Her Son to Sleep", a woodcutting of the infant Jesus asleep in a cradle, rocked by two angels, while the Virgin Mary sits alongside engaged in needlework.Coleridge sent the Latin copy to be printed in the "Courier" in 1801 as "A Correspondent in Germany".Despite having made a translation in his notebook, Coleridge did not consider publishing his English version of the short poem for almost ten years.