[Music]
Come, Holy Spirit, heav'nly dove,
With all thy quick'ning powers;
Come shed abroad a Savior's love,
And that will kindle ours.
This is quite clearly the 'Barbara Allen' tune as it is seen, for
example, in Sharp, i., 183ff. It is also related to 'Lonesome Grove'
in this collection. The "dove" theme in the text of the above song and
in the 'Lonesome Grove' song was possibly the magnet which attracted
the texts to variant tunes.
No. 132
CEYLON, PB 372