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Title
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Four seasons
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Singer
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Halliday, Arthur Hewer
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Notes
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Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'It would be quite superfluous for me to point out the qualities of the following: they are obvious to the most casual reader. The piece is very fine, either as a poem or a song, and any collector of folk literature should be proud to have it in his possession. It reminds me strongly in some respects of the Fourth Ode of the First Book of Horace: though the Roman poet sang in a more exalted strain his verses have not such felicity of description. The piece was sung at Culkerton, where I obtained it of Arthur Halliday.'
Williams, Alfred: FSUT: 'It would be quite superfluous for me to point out the qualities of the following. It reminds me in some respects of the Fourth Ode of the First Book of Horace: though the Roman poet sang in a more exalted strain his verses have not more felicity of description. The piece was sung at Culkerton, where I obtained it of Arthur Halliday.'
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
