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Thread #88248   Message #1654450
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
23-Jan-06 - 07:48 PM
Thread Name: ADD: DAPHNE - When Daphne from Sweet Phoebus
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When Daphne from sweet Phoebus did fly
Seventeenth-century urban songwriters (I doubt if the song ever circulated in "tradition") didn't have the benefit of Mr Graves' personal, supernatural "insights". I also suspect that the tune was forgotten until revived in the 19th century; but I could, naturally, be quite wrong about that.

Can anybody fill some gaps?