> I don't know whether it appeared in all of the previous editions.

"Awake, thou fairest thing in nature" is also on pp. 306-307 of the 1740 10th edition of TTM, where it is included in volume 3. I can't find an earlier edition online to check, but The National Library of Scotland catalogue lists a copy of vol. 3 published in 1727, and I've seen that year cited in several places as the year vol. 3 was first published, so I guess that is most likely the earliest date of publication of the song.

By the way, in connection with the general issue of how and when British songs entered circulation in North America, the following feedback from an American reader proudly quoted by Ramsay in the Preface to the 1740 TTM might be of interest:

"THIS tenth edition in a few years, and the general demand for the book by persons of all ranks, wherever our language is understood, is a sure evidence of its being acceptable. My worthy friend Dr. Bannerman tells me from America,

Nor only do your lays o'er *Britain* flow,
Round all the globe your happy sonnets go ;
Here thy soft verse, made to a *Scottish* air,
Are often sung by our *Virginian* fair.
*Camilla's* warbling notes are heard no more,
But yield to *Last time I came o'er the moor*;
*Hydaspes* and *Rinaldo* both give way
To *Mary Scot*, *Tweed-side*, and *Mary Gray*."