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CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 5 by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: BABY, BABY FAIR
Last Line: NEVER YET WAS HEARD
Subject(s): BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827);
Baby, baby fair,
Love is fain to dare
Bless your haughtiest air.

Baby blithe and bland,
Reach but forth a hand
None may dare withstand;

Love, though wellnigh cowed,
Yet would praise aloud
Pride so sweetly proud.

No! the fitting word
Even from breeze or bird
Never yet was heard



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