But now you may stare as you like and there's nothing to scan

Having the radio tuned to WHRB per usual in the car, I was listening to the Münchener Bach-Chor's Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 (1723) when I realized that a figure in the concluding chorale—most popularly known in its 1926 piano transcription by Myra Hess as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"—was sticking in my head because I knew words to it, which were currently eluding me because the strings were carrying the relevant melody while the choir was quite reasonably singing a hymn in German across it. Fortunately, I managed to place it before I ran out of Bach; the phrase in question can be heard at the end of each verse of George Butterworth's "The lads in their hundreds," composed in 1911 as part of Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad. In fact, allowing for differences in time signatures etc., it is possible to switch more or less seamlessly between the vocal line from Butterworth and the countermelody from Bach, as I have discovered by the simple exponent of my brain doing so ever since I made the connection between the two. I don't think there is anything to be done with this information, but at least the likeness is not still nagging me. When I went looking to see if anyone else had remarked on it, I found a claim that "The lads in their hundreds" is itself echoed in Kate Bush's "Bertie" (2005), but that's much less obvious to me.