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was probably done to make it a safe reading for women and children in the 19th century context. He also included 'doth' between 'down' and 'rayne' based on his probable interpretation that the wind did blow the rain away. Some modernization of spellings was done by other editors to make the poem accessible for modern reading.
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Both simplified and distorted versions of this poem have been printed over the past many years. These include both tampered and accurately modernized versions. For example
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The version used by the three Mass composers can only be inferred by what they put into their Masses. In programme notes (see below), Peter
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recorded an extended and modified version of the song sometime between 1982 and 1995, adding various new lines. This version, however, was not released until 2010.
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that was used in these Masses is not entirely straightforward. There is a version that uses the secular words, but with rather different notes:
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The remaining musical examples above are adapted from versions given in the online version (2004) of the
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alludes to the poem in "O Western Wind" (1962),"The Little Pin: Fragment" (1975) and "Disasters" (1976).
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