Constancy

DESCRIPTION: "Oh! lovely Delia, virtuous, fair, Believe me now your only dear. I'd not exchange my happy state For all the wealth of all the great."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1919 (Shoemaker)
KEYWORDS: love
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, "Constancy" (1 fragment) (p. 158 in the 1919 edition; not found in the third edition)
Roud #15007
NOTES [74 words]: I found two other references to this in histories of Pennsylvania found on the internet; both included only this single verse, and I suspect they were dependent on each other. Unfortunately, I can't cite them, since the chapters I found were incomplete! But this seems to be the only verse extant.
Roud includes this with the "Canal Boat Song," found two pages earlier in Shoemaker's first edition, but I think this is just a numbering glitch. - RBW
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