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THE FAIRY by WILLIAM BLAKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME HITHER MY SPARROWS
Last Line: OF THE MARRIAGE RING
Subject(s): BIBLE; FAIRIES; MARRIAGE; MYTHOLOGY; ELVES; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;

Come hither my sparrows
My little arrows
If a tear or a smile
Will a man beguile
If an amorous delay
Clouds a sunshiny day
If the step of a foot
Smites the heart to its root
Tis the marriage ring
Makes each fairy a king

So a fairy sung
From the leaves I sprung
He leapd from the spray
To flee away
But in my hat caught
He soon shall be taught
Let him laugh let him cry
Hes my butterfly
For I've pulld out the Sting
Of the marriage ring



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