\u2018Neath a northern sky is an unusual post for Cumbrian Characters, being both very short and basically a question.<\/p>\n
There are no Cumbrian Characters in this post (or are there?) and it is a search for information, rather than providing it.<\/p>\n
So, here goes:<\/p>\n
The hills are calling, calling to their own\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
And I was born \u2018neath a northern sky\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
And they who once that secret speech hath known\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Shall hear it till they die.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The above poem, when a cousin read it to me over the phone the other day, was 100 per cent familiar. But I don\u2019t know why.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Search for it online and it is quoted, in full, on what appear to be three versions of a blogger\u2019s website, described there only as \u2018an anonymous poem’ found at the front of a 1947 book called Youth Hostel Lakeland,<\/i> by J B West.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s it. Unless there is another version, with slightly different words, the search pulls up just three results.<\/p>\n
So, who was this J B West ( as against one who was chief usher of the American White House!)? Did he or she write the poem?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
And if it barely exists on the whole of the worldwide web, where else does it appear for me to have recognised it?<\/p>\n
The photo, by the way, is of Thirlmere.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Neath a northern sky is an unusual post for Cumbrian Characters, being both very short and basically a question. There are no Cumbrian Characters in this post (or are there?) and it is a search for information, rather than providing it. So, here goes: ‘Neath a northern sky The hills are calling, calling to their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[318,317],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cumbria-history","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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