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Really? No, I'm just using the words descriptively...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Frank Bridge wrote a berceuse - close enough to home?
Certainly closer... No foreign languages were harmed (or used) in the making of this puzzle (or its answer).
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
ah, well done yet again Anna
just as I thought of a Little Door <doh>
Oh, I was just musing out loud mercia, not playing and wasn't it Praetorious? And, I'm sure it's a Carol not a lullaby. Not heard of Little Door I must confess!
or homing in on the exact answer with pinpoint accuracy, as usual
No, honestly not (you make me sound like a guided missile! Or a pigeon!) It's just my logical female mind thinking what could be a perfect flower .... I'm off to tackle all this paperwork and will leave you all in peace now!
This, I think, we must christen "Anna's Gambit"...
...Ã la 'waving not drowning'...
"Musing not playing"
As usual, our Muse ushers in the correct answers...
Spotless Rose: ✔
Little Door: ✔
Who's going to aMuse the company by getting the third of the group and the H ?
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Herbert Howells
Three Carol Anthems - Here is the Little Door, A Spotless Rose and Sing Lullaby
and with snow outside it could be Christmas
That's partly what triggered my thought
Cheers mercia Quite correct!
Warm us up with an Interesting I...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
This, I think, we must christen "Anna's Gambit"...
There is already an Anna's Gambit (of sorts) in the Battle of Bueno Vista in 1847 but the Anna involved was a man and his name was Santa Anna: Santa Anna's Gambit: General Santa Anna, recently welcomed back to Mexico after living in exile in Cuba, swiftly raised an army of 20,000 men
I please connecting
a great Celtic hill, a name for Guernsey and a Harry Watt production
Mercia, this is intriguing and I have had a puzzle over this but apart from a fleeting reference to Druids I have absolutely no idea whatsoever (so I cannot be a heat-seeking device in this instance) I look forward to looking in around 10pm to see if anyone has made inroads. (Btw, we seem to be missing Flay, is he off on his hols again?)
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