| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Song: ‘Oh! forbear to bid me slight her’ | | By Aaron Hill (1685–1750) |
| | | OH! forbear to bid me slight her, | |
| Soul and senses take her part; | |
| Could my death itself delight her, | |
| Life should leap to leave my heart. | |
| Strong, though soft, a lover’s chain, | 5 |
| Charm’d with woe, and pleas’d with pain. | |
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| Though the tender flame were dying, | |
| Love would light it at her eyes; | |
| Or, her tuneful voice applying, | |
| Through my ear my soul surprise. | 10 |
| Deaf, I see the fate I shun; | |
| Blind, I hear I am undone. | | | | |
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