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Neth Smiley ([personal profile] goatgodschild) wrote2023-08-24 12:42 am

Lyrics to "Old Samson's Rime" from "Gone to Earth" (1950)

If you hear the Death Pack cry
And wicked Squire go riding by
If you hear Black Huntsman's horn
Sound betwixt the dusk and dawn
Don't you never turn your head
Unless you want to drop down dead.
 

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[personal profile] haptalaon 2023-08-24 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)

I'm reading the novel of this at the moment - I'm finding it quite a Lot. There's some beautiful language, but also the bodice ripper sexual politics are...a bit grim, and I say that as someone with a higher degree of patience towards pulpy romance than the average feminist



One thing I've found for the radio station is an album by Beguildy which set lots of the Mary Webb poems to music.