[lit-ideas] Re: HC Reed

Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 6:18:53 PM, David Ritchie wrote:

DR> on 4/26/05 7:11 AM, Steven G. Cameron at stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> Judy Evans wrote:
>> 

>> 
>>> Do you know "The Flowers of the Forest" (about the Battle of Flodden)?
>>> Very different. But I find it a little haunting, too: I can hear a
>>> piper's lament.

DR> Perhaps because "Flowers of the Forest" *is* a piper's lament, played at
DR> almost any highland gathering you go to, followed by a moments of silence
DR> for the dead.

Except that I've never heard it played. (I am woefully ignorant of
Highland gatherings.)  I know it as a lament for the Scottish dead at
Flodden.  But I suppose simply knowing that would make me think
of the pipes playing.

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