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Thread #133850   Message #3041583
Posted By: Les from Hull
27-Nov-10 - 03:19 PM
Thread Name: Englands other Hero, Lord Cochrane
Subject: RE: Englands other Hero, Lord Cochrane
Still no song eh? Cochrane featured in several cartoons featuring events in his life, particularily the Gilray cartoon about the Westminster election of 1807. Perhaps the Chileans have a song about their beloved Almirante Cochrane. Meanwhile here's what Walter Scott wrote about his missus.

Even now, as through the air the plaudits rung,
I marked the smiles that in her features came;
She caught the word that fell from every tongue,
And her eye brightened at her Cochrane's name;
And brighter yet became her bright eyes' blaze;
It was his country, and she felt the praise."

If someone fancied writing a Cochrane song, might I suggest basing it on the often-reproduced recruiting poster for the 'Flying' Pallas, turning it into a recuiting song.