JERI, if you read further on the notes given for "Home Lads, Home" you will find it WAS written by FOX-SMITH. Given her Kiplingesque ability to enter into the language of her narrators, (which started this whole thread in the first place) it's no wonder that the person who wrote the note was fooled into thinking that she was a he.

I do know Sarah Morgan and there is no doubt about the origin of the lyrics.

I and many of my friends are looking for any poetry by Cicely Fox-Smith that might by worth setting.

And finally I'm still looking for the tune to "Lee Forebrace". I