"The Triumph", also known as "Follow Your Lover" is an English and Scottish country dance tune in 2/4 or cut time or a hornpipe in 2/2 time and G Major (Barnes, Karpeles, Kennedy, Raven, Sharp, Sumner, Trim), A Major (Athole, Hunter, Kerr, Milne, Skye) or A Mixoldyain (Ross). The parts are played AB (Raven), ABC (Barnes, Kennedy), AABC (Hunter, Karpeles, Kerr, Sharp), AABBC (Athole, Ross, Skye), AABBCC (Sumner, Trim) or AABBCC' (Milne). The melody was very popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries throughout Britain. The English novelist Thomas Hardy grew up in a musical family and was an accomplished dance fiddler and accordion player from early youth. He was influenced by his father (himself a locally famous dance fiddler), an uncle and a cello-playing grandfather, all of whom played for a church band in addition to more secular amusements. Hardy mentions both the dance and tune "The Triumph", the same one still known in modern times, in Under the Greenwood Tree (1872). It appears in print in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson’s Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1790, Aird’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (1796), Preston’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1793, Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005), Callaghan's Hardcore English (2007), Campbell's 9th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & Strathspey Reels (1795), Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988), Johnson's A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century (1998), Karpeles and Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Country Dance Airs (1951), Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (1880), Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book One (1881), MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887), Milne's Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin (1870), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984), Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music (1869), Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909), Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884), Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997), Trim's The Musical Legacy of Thomas Hardy (1990) and Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (1816). It was recorded by Kirkpatrick and Hutchings on The Compleat Dancing Master (1973) and Mellstock Band on Hardcore English (2007).