William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: Dear, from thine arms then let me flyJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (16471680)
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That my fantastic mind may prove
The torments it deserves to try,
That tears my fixed heart from my love.
To thy safe bosom I retire,
Where love, and peace, and truth, do flow,
May I contented there expire!
I fall on some base heart unblest,
Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven,
And lose my everlasting rest.