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Setting of a poem by Alfred Tennyson

1596551The Child's Own Music Book — Sweet and LowAlbert Ernest WierJoseph Barnby
For other versions of this work, see Sweet and Low.


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SWEET AND LOW

Alfred Tennyson
Sir Joseph Barnby


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