Judy Collins' "Farewell to Tarwathie"

Yester-day when I listened to that Judy Collins album, I noticed a small detail in "Farewell to Tarwathie."  The song starts and ends with the same stanza (although the ending stanza has "we" where the opening one has "I"), and the first two lines of that stanza exhibit structural parallelism:

Farewell to Tarwathie, adieu Mormond Hill
And the dear land of Crimond, I bid you farewell

The first line shows this more than the second, but each section ("Farewell to Tarwathie," "Adieu Mormond Hill," and "The dear land of Crimond, I bid you farewell") says goodbye to a particular place, just using different ways of saying goodbye and - obviously - different places.

Judy Collins' "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)"

I just listened to a compilation album of Judy Collins.  While I'm more familiar with the Byrds' version of "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)," Judy Collins articulates some of the lines differently, which got me thinking about these lines:

A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing

From hearing the Byrds' version, I'd always thought that these lines meant that there is a time when embracing is allowed and a time when it should be avoided, but because Collins articulates them differently (she emphasizes may), I realized that they could mean something else - that there's a time that you'll want to be a part of and a time that you won't want to be a part of.  In some ways, it's similar to the carpe diem idea.  There are some days where you'll want to seize the day and some days where you won't.

It's interesting how the articulation of the lyrics can draw out these different meanings.