"God keep our land glorious and free:" Metaphors for God, death, and "heavenly things" in some English languageCanadian folk songs
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Abstract
God keep our land, glorious and free" is the request made each time Canadians sing their national anthem.The Ode to Newfoundland offers up the prayer "God guard thee, God guard thee, God guard thee Newfoundland" (Mills and Peacock, 1958, p. 50).These are both blatantly open calls to God for protection within our country of Canada.In my research I have been looking at folk songs to see if our song literature has always been so open about God (and death and heavenly things), and how, if not, these topics have been addressed.The research took me mostly to songs from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia, and I discovered an interesting mixture of blatant and metaphorical references to God, death, and heaven.By far the greatest number of songs making any type of reference to these topics come from the sea-faring tradition of the Atlantic coast -presumably because death is an ever present danger in the fishing and sailing industries.The next largest group of songs containing these types of references belongs to the cowboy genre.I can only surmise that this is either because of the inherent dangers of rounding up cattle and riding the range, or because of the long hours cowboys spend on their own, with time to contemplate death, God, and the possibility of a life hereafter.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".