Blow Away the Morning Dew is the first folk song to feature in the movement. It is also known as The Baffled Knight, and is Child ballad 112. The earliest printed version of the song appears in Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609) as The Overcurteous Knight.
Read more about this topic: Folk Songs From Somerset
Famous quotes containing the words blow, morning and/or dew:
“Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almost finished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Thanks to the morning light,
Thanks to the foaming sea,
To the uplands of New Hampshire,
To the green-haired forest free.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“For never yet one hour in his bed
Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep,
But with his timorous dreams was still awaked.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)