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WHEN THRO' LIFE UNBLEST WE HOVE.
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Sonv sunq bn Miss Catle.y. both words and music were published in sheet-form by Robert Eoss. the Edinburgh publisher and
although not dated. I take this sheet to be prior to any of the publications which I have quoted. Miss Oatley sang in ^eiana
"between 1763 and 1770, before which she was involved in a scandalous criminal case ; she made her last public appearance m
1784. and died Ave years later. It is hardly necessary to point out that " The Banks of Banna" is merely an adaptation ot the
old air Sin sios anus liorri, or, "Down beside me," published in Daniel Wright's Aria di Camera, c. 1(30, and many later works, ana
to which Moore wrote his song, "Oh, where is the slave."