The two paragraphs that deal with Reverend Parsons that is...

Btw, the link below shows what you get when you begin with a text and compose an unmemorable tune as an afterthought. It uses the name Earl Bran but it is actually the Douglas Tragedy (no lilly lally):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWu8t1yfXPQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Ugh! And what's more, the rose-briar motif is only on the "Douglas Tragedy" and "Prince Robert" because Sir Walter Scott put them there. He passed off his own design as part of a folk tradition.

Chapter 1- The Douglas Tragedy (This is where I expose Sir Walter Scot as the P.T. Barnum of "folk artifacts." In the process knock off two contenders for my precious motif :-)))