Thanks for that Malcolm.

There are several short bios of Elizabeth Stirling available online. I was particularly interested in the description of the song as prize-winning - I wondered what prize it had won.

There is also a book about her Elizabeth Stirling and the Musical Life of Female Organists in Nineteenth-Century England with what looks like a large appendix (pp 203-212 from the index preview) devoted to the song. That would be interesting to look at (but at £50+ I'm not thinking of buying it!).

Mick