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Poem by George Lyttelton
Song
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?
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?
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?
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?
When fond of pow’r, of beauty vain,
Her nets she spread for ev’ry swain,
I strove to hate, but vainly strove;
Tell me, my heart, if this be love.
1732
George Lyttelton
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