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Posted by Janine Murphy on August 19, 19102 at 06:31:56:
Does anyone totally understand John Shaw Neilson's poem The Meeting Of Sighs? It has been set to music by Margaret Sutherland and I am singing this song at uni. I don't know if my interpretation is correct.
The words go----Your voice was the rugged old voice that I knew-----I gave the best grip(?) of my friendship to you----------I knew not of you lips , you knew not of mine-------Of travel and travail we gave not a sign----------We drank and we chorused with quips in our eyes, But under the song was the meeting of sighs-----------------I knew not of your lips you knew not of mine. For lean years and lone years had watered the wine.
What inspired this poem and who is singing to and about who?
Thanks for helping me in anticipation. Janine