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Thompson Origins: The Green Linnet (38) RE: Origins: The Green Linnet 10 Nov 23

It seems to be a version of the Aisling, the coded political song disguised as a love song that was a standard mode in 18th-century Ireland: a young man wandering meets a beautiful mysterious woman, often by a riverside, and she mourns that those who will save her are fled or dead, but her saviour will return.
Yeats's play Cathleen Ni Houlihan could be said to be a riff on this mode.

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