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PG-P.749.003
17 Jan 1749:22 (1049)
From the London Evening-Post of August 23. 1748.
AN ODE ON THE RESTITUTION OF CAPE BRETON.
Recitativo.
At length the melancholy morn appears,
When poor Britannia must, alas! resign
Yon favourite isle. Her sons, dissolv'd in tears,
Reluctant quit, and each cries, 'she was mine.'
Air
Ye valient chiefs, who nobly won this prize,
From grateful altars let sweet incense rise:
Each Briton renders where so justly due,
(Success tho' baffled) praise no less to you.
. . . [Chorus, air, recitative, air, recitativo, air and
chorus more.]
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