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[Burns, Robert]. "Their groves o' sweet myrtles let Foreign Lands reckon …"

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Consists of two songs titled "Song--Tune, Humors of glen" (beginning "Their groves o' sweet myrtles …") and Johnie B---'s lament-Tune The babes o' the wood" (beginning 'Twas in the seventeen hunder year…")

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Date
[1795]
Call number
HM 13045.

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