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[Page 46]
SONG.
Written in the Year 1732.
I.
1 WHEN DELIA on the plain appears,
2 Aw'd by a thousand tender fears,
3 I would approach, but dare not move; —
4 Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love.
II.
[Page 47]5 Whene'er she speaks, my ravish'd ear
6 No other voice but her's can hear,
7 No other wit but her's approve; —
8 Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love.
III.
9 If she some other youth commend,
10 Though I was once his fondest friend,
11 His instant enemy I prove; —
12 Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love.
IV.
13 When she is absent, I no more
14 Delight in all that pleas'd before,
15 The clearest spring, or shadiest grove; —
16 Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love.
V.
17 When fond of pow'r, of beauty vain,
18 Her nets she spreads for ev'ry swain,
19 I strove to hate, but vainly strove; —
20 Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love.
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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 46-47. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.002) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)
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