| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘Dear, from thine arms then let me fly’ | | By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) |
| | | DEAR, from thine arms then let me fly, | |
| That my fantastic mind may prove | |
| The torments it deserves to try, | |
| That tears my fixed heart from my love. | |
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| When wearied with a world of woe | 5 |
| To thy safe bosom I retire, | |
| Where love, and peace, and truth, do flow, | |
| May I contented there expire! | |
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| Lest, once more wandering from that heaven, | |
| I fall on some base heart unblest, | 10 |
| Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven, | |
| And lose my everlasting rest. | | | | |
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