I see them on their winding way
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Front cover of "I see them on their winding way" song sheet, third edition sung by Mr Sinclair of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane (circa 1830). The words are from an unpublished poem by the late Bishop Heber. The melody and accompaniment by B Hime, Liverpool.
The cover shows soldiers or knights riding on horseback with banners flying through woodland at night with moonbeams illuminating them.
Published by Hime and Son, Castle Street and Church Street, London, and may be obtained in London from Goulding and D'Almaine, Soho Square; Monro and May, Holborn Bars; Cramer and Co, Regent Street; Clements and Co, Cheapside; S. Chappel, Leoni Lee, Mon and Co, Lonsdale and Mills, New Bond Street, London.
The song sheet could also be obtained in Manchester from B Himes, St Anns Square.
Dating sources:
Bishop Heber, 1723 to 1826
Published by Torp and Unger, issue date 1820
Published in New York by Firth and Hall in 1832:
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sheetmusic/id/27578
Royal Academy of Music dates the song ca. 1830
