SONG. Written in the Year 1732. George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.002 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.

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SONG . Written in the Year 1732. By the Same . I. WHEN DELIA on the plain appears , Aw'd by a thousand tender fears , I would approach , but dare not move ; — Tell me , my Heart , if this be Love . II . Whene'er she speaks , my ravish'd ear No other voice but her's can hear , No other wit but her's approve ; — Tell me , my Heart , if this be Love . III . If she some other youth commend , Though I was once his fondest friend , His instant enemy I prove ; — Tell me , my Heart , if this be Love . IV . When she is absent , I no more Delight in all that pleas'd before , The clearest spring , or shadiest grove ; — Tell me , my Heart , if this be Love . V. When fond of pow'r , of beauty vain , Her nets she spreads for ev'ry swain , I strove to hate , but vainly strove ; — Tell me , my Heart , if this be Love .