This duet was founded upon the question little Paul Dombey
asks his sister:
I want to know what it says--the sea, Floy, what is
it that it keeps on saying?
WHEN HE WHO ADORES THEE (_O.C.S._ 35)
Words by _Moore_.
In _Irish Melodies_ to the air 'The Fox's Sleep.'
WHEN I WENT TO LUNNON TOWN, SIRS (_G.E._ 15)
Probably original. The nearest I have found to it is--
THE ASTONISHED COUNTRYMAN, OR,
A BUSTLING PICTURE OF LONDON.
When first I came to London Town,
How great was my surprise,
Thought I, the world's turned upside down,
Such wonders met my eyes.
And in _The Universal Songster_--
When I arrived in London Town,
I got my lesson pat, &c.
WHEN IN DEATH I SHALL CALM RECLINE
Moore's _Irish Melodies_.
In 1833 Dickens wrote a travesty called _O' Thello_, in which
is a humorous solo of eight lines, to be sung to the air to
which the above is set.
WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY (_O.C.S._ 56)
'Do my pretty Olivia,' cried she, 'let us have that
little melancholy air your papa was so fond of;
your sister Sophy has already obliged us. Do, child,
it will please your old father.' She complied in a
manner so exquisitely pathetic, as moved me.
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds, too late, that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?
(Goldsmith's _Vicar of Wakefield_, ch. xxiv.)
WHEN THE HEART OF A MAN (_D.C._ 24, _O.M.F._ iii. 14)
Words by _Gay_ (_Beggar's Opera_). Set to a seventeenth-century
air.
If the heart of a man is depressed with care,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears,
Like the notes of a fiddle she sweetly, sweetly
Raises our spirits and charms our ears.
WHEN THE STORMY WINDS (_D.C._ 21, _D. & S._ 23)
Words by _Campbell_, who may have taken them from an earlier
source. See 'You Gentlemen of England.'
WHITE SAND (_L.D._ i. 32)
An old glee. See p. 106.
WHO PASSES BY THIS ROAD SO LATE (_L.D._ i. 1)
(Blandois' Song.)
Words by _C. Dickens_. _H.R.S. Dalton._
An old French children's singing game. Dickens' words are
a literal translation. See _Eighty Singing Games_ (Kidson
and Moffat).
WHO RAN TO CATCH ME WHEN I FELL (_O.C.S._ 38)
From Ann Taylor's nursery song 'My Mother.'
WIFE SHALL DANCE AND I WILL SING, SO MERRILY PASS THE DAY
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