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Thread #29983   Message #4035635
Posted By: GUEST,Starship
23-Feb-20 - 07:54 AM
Thread Name: Tolpuddle Martyrs, any songs?
Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Martyrs, any songs?
https://books.google.ca/books?id=1vwnAPEY5JsC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=O+cease+my+troubled+aching+heart+to+beat,+Since+happiness+so

The book implies that the poem lyrics were written prior to or in 1837 (see paragraph just following the poem lyrics).