I bet Tim Connell is right - but it shows how much we miss having a full
Harbord for the Verse.
Alastair Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Professor Tim Connell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: screw-guns
> **I would imagine it is an allusion to mountainous conditions, with one
> wheel over the edge of a precipitous cliff path. Could Horns of the
Morning
> refer to a crescent moon?? Or is there a mountain in the Himalaya range? I
> am thinking of the Horns of Hattim as an analogy (where the crusaders got
> wiped out near the Sea of Galilee).
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lycett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: screw-guns
>
>
> Can this really be true? After two years of trying (originally with a very
> ancient computer) I seem at last to have cracked how to post to the list.
> Hooray!
>
> My query is about Screw-guns. Does anyone have any idea what RK is getting
> at when he writes
>
> There's a wheel on the Horns o' the Mornin', an' a wheel on the edge of
the
> Pit
>
> Editions of Barrack-room Ballads seem to suggest that this is a reference
> to Psalms 139:9 (as in The Widow at Windsor)
> But the psalm refers to 'wings of the morning' (as does TWaW)
>
> And that sort of meaning seems odd in the context of Screw-guns.
> How does RK get from wings to horns?
> Or is there some other meaning/allusion that escapes me?
>
>
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