Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go!
What do you mean to vex me so?
 ... , cease your pleading force.
Do you think thus to extort remorse?
Now, now! No more! Alas, you overbear me;
And I would cry but some, I fear, might hear me.

Composition:

Set to music by George Theophilus Walker (b. 1922), "Sweet, let me go", copyright © 1971 [ voice and piano ], General Music Publishing

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title

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