Carrington quotes Elsie (page 481 in the Penguin edition) as writng that
'much of [RK}'s best known verse was written to a tune' including
Recessional to Melita, the usual tune of Eternal Father Strong to Save. I
sang it to this tune at my prep school in the 1930's. She also attributes
'Mandalay' to 'an old waltz tune', but I find this very surprising - so
much of it is in a hammering duple metre ('and the dawn comes up like
thunder..,')
Michael Healy
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