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A New Song for the Electors of the County of Mid-Lothian

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A New Song for the Electors of the County of Mid-Lothian

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A New Song for the Electors of the County of Mid-Lothian

Poet(s)

Unsigned

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Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 32:198, 401–402, September 1832.

First line

Oh! The gallant Sir John is a Knight of renown

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

Tune: The Young Lochinvar. Song sung by the character Mullion in the unsigned prose contribution Noctes Ambrosianæ. LXII (381-412), by John Gibson Lockhart (Wellesley Index). (SP)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 11215

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “A New Song for the Electors of the County of Mid-Lothian,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1832/pom_11215_a_new_song_for_the_electors_of.html.

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