Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories
300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.
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THE SOLDIER' S DEE AM. |
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THE CAPTIVE KNIGHT.
The words of " The Captive Knight" were written by Mrs. Hemans, and the music was composed by her sister, Mrs. Arkwright. The music was very popular, as the stirring march of the approaching army was given, and an interlude which imitated the distant sounds of its heavy tread, before the plaintive words were sung, " They are gone! They lave all passed by," &c. The poem was suggested to the author by Scott's lines in " The Lady of the Lake ":
The prisoned thrush may brook the cage. The captive eagle dies for rage. |
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