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CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 1 by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: BABY, BABY BRIGHT
Last Line: HEAVEN IN TWO BLUE EYES.
Subject(s): BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827);
To a Tune of Blake's


Baby, baby bright,
Sleep can steal from sight
Little of your light:

Soft as fire in dew,
Still the life in you
Lights your slumber through.

Four white eyelids keep
Fast the seal of sleep
Deep as love is deep:

Yet, though closed it lies,
Love behind them spies
Heaven in two blue eyes.



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