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NYGWPB.749.010
13 Feb 1749:12 (317)
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 valiant 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.
Ambitious Gaul will now record in story,
This is the period of Great Britain's glory.
. . . [22 more lines; 32 lines total in 3 recitativos, 4
airs, and 2 choruses]
From the London Evening Post of August 23, 1748.
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