No. 131 Heavenly Dove, Soc 23
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
Come, Holy Spirit, heav’nly dove,
With all thy quick’ning powers;
Come shed abroad a Savior’s love,
And that will kindle ours.
This is quite clearly the ‘Barbara Allen’ tune as it is seen, for example, in Sharp, i., 183ff. It is also related to ‘Lonesome Grove’ in this collection. The “dove” theme in the text of the above song and in the ‘Lonesome Grove’ song was possibly the magnet which attracted the texts to variant tunes.