Falling back on favorite songs seems a natural way for people (especially students) to experience their emotions. When I was thinking about Jeanette’s loneliness during Edward’s absence in the winter of 1879–1880, I searched the Public Domain Music for a song for her to sing over and over to herself. What luck to find a melancholy, wistful one published in 1872 by a female songwriter, Charlotte Alington Barnard, the pseudonym of Claribel! It even fitted perfectly with Jeanette and Edward’s earlier romantic day by the Seine.
To read the lyrics, click here.
To hear the melody as I heard it when I wrote, click here.
For a modern singer’s rendition now on the web, click
here.
To read the lyrics, click here.
To hear the melody as I heard it when I wrote, click here.
For a modern singer’s rendition now on the web, click
here.