On 19-Dec-2009, "Listener" <listening@everywhere.eu> wrote:
> I have contacted
> another ex-pupil from the same school and she tells me there may be
> more
> to this story. She recognizes my recollection of the words of the hymn
> we sung that day as being word perfect, *but* then she explains the
> senior music mistress at the school at the time had maybe composed
> those
> words herself! When I said I find this difficult to believe,
> apparently
> this music tutor was not only famous in the local vicinity for her
> renditions of all the Proms type of music performances, she also took
> other stirring works and wrote words to fit which her pupils might
> then
> sing.
Oh my goodness! To reply to my own message is so shameful, but the
information in my previous answer has now proved to be so wrong and
shameful that I simply must post without delay.
The words of the hymn were *NOT* created by our music mistress but were
written by Mr. Rudyard Kipling!
Do forgive me. I feel ashamed after living so long to have been fooled
by a tale presented to me by one who used to be a young damsel. She is a
young and innocent damsel no more for she waited until I had posted the
false information about Non Nobus Domine in the newsgroup then phoned me
to say how silly I was.
I shall go back to listening and lurking.
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