Is unceasingly flowing,
And the verdure is green,
And eternally growing.
The tune and words which are parodied here are those of the ‘Braes o’ Balquhidder’. The text is attributed, by the compiler of the Olive Leaf, to “Rev. Wm. McDonald, I guess”. The Scotch song begins:
Will you go, lassie, go to the braes o’Balquhidder,
Where the blackberries grow in the bonnie blooming heather.
See Gilchrist, JFSS, viii., 77. Another variant of the ‘Braes o’ Balquhidder’ tune in this collection is ‘[Lone Pilgrim]’. Gilchrist traces the Scotch tune back still farther to ‘Brochan Buirn’, an old Gaelic air. See JFSS, viii., 76. It influenced Stephen Foster in his making of the tune ‘Linda Has Departed’. (See my article in The Musical Quarterly, vol. xxii, No. 2.)
No. 81
[LAND OF REST], OL 117
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
