Music by Helen Walker
Lyric by James Hogg (1770-1835) *
Song scored for a cappella Mixed Choir (SATB).
A solo voice with accompaniment recording of the song by The Nearlys was released in 2016.
*James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist.
As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorised biography.
He became widely known as the 'Ettrick Shepherd', a nickname under which some of his works were published, and the character name he was given in the widely read series 'Noctes Ambrosianae' published in Blackwood's Magazine.
He is best known today for his novel 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'. His other works include the long poem 'The Queen's Wake' (1813), his collection of songs 'Jacobite Relics' (1819), and his two novels 'The Three Perils of Man' (1822), and 'The Three Perils of Woman' (1823).
