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Thread #14716   Message #4032996
Posted By: keberoxu
08-Feb-20 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Mountains of Mourne (Percy French)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mountains of Mourne (Percy French)
Lesley N.'s response is correct, by the way,
as I found when it was necessary to look up Thomas Moore's original.

Lalla Rookh includes this lyric as
a song from the Harem!
It seems that
Bendemir was a Persian river.
Does that mean it flows through Iran today?



There is a French-language translation, however,
titled 'Odalisque."