Title Despairing Shepherd, The (t) 
Short Title Watts MM-1, 1729 
Page 58-60 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO/VN+FL 
Incipit  //34//543//65434//3//433221 
First Line Sun was sunk beneath the hills, The (fl) 
Burden Text But I, alas! Am nought but love (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  35634 
Intervals  2,2,-2,-2,4,-2,-2,-2,2,-2,2,-2,-2,-2, 
Key Signature FU#,F# 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1729 
Number E20.27 
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