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O had I wings like to a dove (John Milton the Elder)

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Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2003-11-29).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 76 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: O had I wings like to a dove
Composer: John Milton the Elder
Lyricist: William Leighton

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSAAT
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule (1614)

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Original text and translations

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O had I wings like to a dove,
then should I from these troubles fly,
to wilderness would I remove,
to spend my life, and there to die.

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