‘The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day’

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‘The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day’

Poet(s)

Hunter, Anne

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Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5:25, 16, April 1819.

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The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day

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Notes and attribution research

Included in a series of three songs in unsigned parallel translation into Latin under the title “Horæ Cantabrigienses. No III” (16) (KF2). Poet attribution: The Songs of England and Scotland, vol. 1, James Cochrane and Co., 1835, pp. 208-9, where the song is entitled “Cherokee Indian Death Song.” The translator into Latin is Francis Wrangham (Strout 51) (AC).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7832

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day’