Lonesome - the Oxford Dictionary gives it's earliest appearance in print as 1647, and in Victorian times there's a citing from Dickens. Of course that in itself doesn't mean the verse isn't likely enough more recent, but sometimes we are too quick on the trigger about supposed anachronisms.

I incline towards the view that what matters in a song isn't whether it sticks to the original words or not, but how it works as a song. And I think the India verse especially does work well.

"Print the legend"