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tion gives to every little memorial of scenes or feelings that are past, the melody may per-haps be thought common or trifling; but I remember when we have entered at sunset upon one of those beautiful lakes my feelings of pleasure which the finest compositions of the first masters have never given me, and there is not a note of it which does not recall to my memory the dip of our oars in the St. Lawrence, the flight of our boat down the Rapids, and all those new and fanciful impressions to which my heart was alive during the whole of this interesting voyage." At the Rapid of St. Ann they were obliged to take out part if not the whole of the lading. St. Ann's is the last church on the island, which accounts for the line :
" We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn."
Moore wrote " Believe me if all those endear-ing young charms" to " As fada armso me"— "Long am I here." "The gentle maiden/' which in England is familiar under the title of "My lodging is on the cold ground," was sung by Mary Davis before King Charles II. in Sir W. Davenant's play " The Rivals," 1668. Bunting asserts it to be pure Irish, as proved by the characteristic national tone of the sub-182 |
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