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Whar' Esk its silver stream
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C)06"K ♦ Whar' Esk its silver current leads 'mang greenwoods gay wj
S
Slow
H
g[-#jtfi
— rt
55
2*^.^5^
mony a flower 1 hied me aft to dewy meads in hup .py dav& and
f^-r^h/irri^^^#y^
built my bower. I call'd upon the birds to sing An nestle in ilk
^ =j^-|h-rf
^^
fragrant flower, While in the livry of the spring I deckd my sweeten
1
3^^
i
P^¥
-*=-■
chanted bowr.
Pl^^
Twas there T found ah! happy time,
The sweetest flower, and sic a flower
I crop't it in its virgin prime
To deck my sweet, my shady bower
But soon the blast houl'd in the air
That robb'd uie of this matchless flower
An* sorrow since and mony a caic-
Ha'e stript and withered a' n:y bower.
Tho' for seven years.
m
v507"VX Tho' for seven years and mair honour shoud reave me,
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Moderately Slow
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| Special collections of printed music > Inglis Collection of printed music > Printed music > Scots musical museum > Volumes 5-6 > (146) Page 522 - Whar' Esk its silver stream |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/94548920 |
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| Description | Also: Tho' for seven years. |
| Shelfmark | Ing.43 |
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| Description | Consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte. Humbly dedicated to the Catch Club instituted at Edinr. June 1771. By James Johnson. |
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| Shelfmark | Ing.41-43 |
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| Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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