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Right Honourable George Ogle's use of the melody for his ballad beginning,
"Asdown by Banna's banks I strayed."
Burns called this a " heavenly air," and Bernard Trotter says, " It is evidently the production of the purest era of Irish song, as it has the general character of its sweet and touching melody." The version by the Honourable George Ogle (1739-1844) is better than the original, if one may judge by Thomas Furlong's translation. Richard Brinsley Sheridan also wrote to this air the pretty song in " The Duenna" called, "Had I a heart for falsehood framed/' The sentiment of " How oft Louisa," in the same piece, was also taken from an Irish song. This song must not be confused with the song en-titled " The Banks of Banna," also written by the Right Honourable George Ogle, and lifted bodily by the Scottish. " It is/' says Samuel Lover in 1858, "little short of a century since this song was written by Mr. Ogle, to the beautiful melody generally known as the 'Banks of Banna,' but whose ancient title isl Down beside Me/ It is, one may say, notoriously Irish, yet it has been published in Wood's ' Songs of Scotland/ 1851, with the note, that' the air has
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