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The word "song" is erroneously used by popular writers and most posters here to mean words that please them. A song succeeds by the marriage of words and music, whether or not the words were conceived separately.
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Janet, I am sure you didn't mean "Song", by Donne, but some might think you did. A few of Donne's poems were set to music during his day - without his knowledge or approval - and "Go and catch a falling star" was certainly one of them. An anonymous musical arrangement of "Song" from the period still exists. See Helen Gardner,
John Donne: The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets, Appendix B.
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Mark Allinson
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