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Posted By: leeneia
23-Mar-21 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Away to the Mountain's Brow
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Away to the Mountain's Brow
This song, apparently from about 1832, was in 'Songs of England', John Hatton, editor. I found the book on the IMSLP site, and I thought a song about a day on a not-very-wild mountain would be just the thing for people kept home by COVID.

The original had old-fashioned poetical language which I modernized. I also got rid of some huntsmen. I didn't want hunters rampaging through the song, killing the animals, so I replaced their bugle with the kestrel's cry.

Finally, I didn't want to repeat the line about the rose in the lady's cheek, so I changed it to the glow in her eyes being like the sun at sunset. This gave the sense of time passing on a lovely day on a beautiful mountain.
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Thanks for sharing it, Joe.

In the evening after the singaround, the DH and I watched a travelogue about the Lake District. That is exactly the kind of landscape the song made me think of.