Adieu, ye rocks (John Alcock Jr.)

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• (Posted 2022-03-06)  CPDL #68267: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-03-06).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Adieu, ye rocks
Composer: John Alcock Jr.
Lyricist: Richard Savage
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1770
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Original text and translations

English text

Adieu, ye rocks, that witness'd once my flame,
Return'd my sighs, and echo'd Chloe's name!
Cambria farewell! My Chloe's charms no more
Invite my steps along Lanelly's shore.
Far from that shore, where siren-beauty dwells,
And wraps sweet ruin in resistless spells;
From Cambrian plains, which Chloe's lustre boast,
Me native England yields a safer coast.