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• (Posted 2015-09-14)  CPDL #36802: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2015-09-14).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 27 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Welcome the covert
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785
Description:  From a collection of six glees "Composed by an amateur and most respectfully inscribed to Miss Fisher", London, c.1785.

Original text and translations

English text

Welcome the covert of these aged oaks.
Welcome each cavern of these horrid rocks;
Far from the world's illusion let me rove,
Deceived in friendship and betrayed in love.