South Wind, The (Spirit of the South Wind)

DESCRIPTION: "Spirit of the South Wind, riding on a cloud, Like a fabled Magi, wrapped in a flimsy shroud. String thy lute, thou laggard, Sing thy song for me." The singer asks the wind to tell its stories as he rests or dreams
AUTHOR: John Elmer French (source: Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, p. 186, "The South Wind" (1 text)
NOTES [43 words]: I could pontificate at length about the fact that this is almost certainly not traditional, and that Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania should not have included it, but I will confine myself to one note: "Magi" is a plural. The singular is "Magus." - RBW
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