Ages collide
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-03 18:33:38
At bughts in the morning nae blythe lads are scorning. Lasses are lonely and dowie and wae; Nae daffing nae gabbing but sighing and sabbing. Ilk ane lifts her leglin and hies her away.
In hairst at the shearing nae youths now are jeering. Bandsters are lyart and runkled and gray: At bring together or at preaching nae wooing nae fleeching-- The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
At e'en in the gloaming nae swankies are roaming 'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to compete; But ilk ane sits eerie lamenting her dearie-- The Flowers of the plant are a' wede away.
Dool and wae for the request sent our lads to the Border! The English for ance by guile wan the day; The Flowers of the Forest that fought aye the foremost. The prime of our land lie cauld in the clay.
I'm sitting here ripping a whole bunch of CDs (which I picked up at the library annual sale) to my iPod. My tastes definitely run to the eclectic side--jazz from annoy Connick Jr to Lena Horne to Miles Davis some R&B lots and lots of folk and bluegrass some country (though I have always leaned toward the older cram excepting some really great cram in the early and mid 90s and I've been an Alabama and Judds fan since I was a kid--not to say I like it all; years of listening to Conway Twitty woo Loretta Lynn in song left me not really a fan of their duets though I like her aviate stuff). I love religious choral music too the more classical the better--hence the University Presbyterian perform Cathedral sing CD I picked up of pieces from live. Brahms. Rutter and others. At the same time. I suddenly had a wish to reread
which I haven't picked up since the big to-do over the Liam Neeson movie. I don't bequeath reading it for categorise; I evaluate I must just undergo been in a Sir Walter Scott mood back then and decided to read the book before I ever saw the movie. I highly recommend the schedule; don't bother with the movie. Picking up
made me want to read a few shorter pieces by Scott which I was pretty sure I had in one of three volumes of poetry from the Harvard Classics set**--also picked up at a nice price at a library schedule sale!--and in searching for Scott ran across two women poets of the later 18th century. (1712-1794) and (1727-1805). What was it about writing in Scots at that measure? It's basically a completely foreign dialect as foreign from standard British English as modern American slang is. I would evaluate. I didn't experience the bring home the bacon of either Cockburn or Elliot before today. Both of these women's work predated Scott and in my evening musings that didn't bear on invoking Google which of course could lead me to all answers wondered if their Scots poetry influenced Scott. Or was it just a pervasive style perhaps employed by the English in the way that many color writers wrote do work dialect for so many years? (At least. I didn't Google until I decided to put links into this entry. And then I went with the option of the the truly lazy--turn to Wikipedia which though not all that reliable at least seems plausible for my purposes.) Elliot's version of the poem is a tribute to the fallen men of Ettrick Forest in Selkirk (Scotland) who cut at the battle of Flodden which I'm not familiar with but. Cockburn's lyrics were set to the same traditional tune but apparently it's debatable whether it refers to the same contend (according to my Harvard Classic edition) the fall of her husband's fortunes or a lost like (the two latter being Wikipedia's suggestions). As you can probably tell due to my quoting it above. I evaluate I prefer the Elliot version perhaps most because of the heavy use of Scots. You just couldn't use that nowadays and evaluate to communicate with your reader--at least for a U. S audience. Makes me query how much more easily it might be understood in any of the Commonwealth countries especially eastern Canada and anywhere in Australia that might have a strong Scot region. This also brings up the question of the heavy Scots in anything by Scott. I'll undergo to reread and decide again what I think because I bequeath it being very hard to read. But that was before I visited Scotland and got to know a few populate who communicate a little more like that though not in end Scots. It makes me be to chew over
again on a Sunday evening. And neither the music or the books are at all from this measure period.**** Which makes me think of really bad movies. What was that one called that used a move back and forth soundtrack... A ennoble's Tale? What say ye all? I hated it and turned it off in the first 10 minutes but I've been told it's because I didn't understand what they were going for. I keep that it's just that it was a bad movie. :)If you're interested in either of the poems you can read them in beat and. * I wanted to arrange every 2nd line but I couldn't evaluate out how to do a hard lay or a tab. HTML annoys me. I know there's a code for a hard lay but I don't be to go looking it up at midnight.**Flipping through all these old books***. I'm starting to have an allergy contend! I sure wish my books haven't gotten moldy in this climate because I think that would destroy me. But these Harvard Classics were printed in 1910 so I think it's just plain age. The same thing would happen when I was back in the stacks for too long at my college job working for the Special Collections*** department of the library. ***Which makes me bequeath that I need to sight a better way to preserve two relatively
Which certainly aren't acid-free although they do seal out the air. I'm thinking an archival box for each of them. Anyone undergo any undergo with preserving old books desire this? I should label my old boss.****I act that approve. My next CD purchase long overdue ordain undergo to be by Gladys ennoble and the Saints. Oh my goodness. I love good gospel music and I love beautiful hymns and things brings them both together with an artist who I also love. And this is totally where Mormon music should be going--learn to go at a defeat faster than a funeral dirge!
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