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THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: THE LETTER by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHERE IS ANOTHER SWEET AS MY SWEET
Last Line: SOMEBODY KNOWS THAT SHE'LL SAY AY!
Subject(s): LOVE;

Where is another sweet as my sweet,
Fine of the fine, and shy of the shy?
Fine little hands, fine little feet --
Dewy blue eye.
Shall I write to her? shall I go?
Ask her to marry me by and by?
Somebody said that she 'd say no;
Somebody knows that she'll say ay!

Ay or no, if ask'd to her face?
Ay or no, from shy of the shy?
Go, little letter, apace, apace,
Fly;
Fly to the light in the valley below --
Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.
Somebody said that she'd say no;
Somebody knows that she'll say ay!



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