Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!unc!goodrum From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: source for quote needed Message-ID: <381@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 14:03:09 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.381 Posted: Wed Jun 5 14:03:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Jun-85 01:48:46 EDT References: Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 19 Summary: In article glenm@mako.UUCP (Glen McCluskey) writes: > >Can someone tell me what work the fragment > > ...burning bright, in the forests of the night. > >is taken from? > > Glen McCluskey > ..tektronix!mako!glenm This is from "The Tiger" by William Blake. The poem begins Tiger,tiger burning bright, in the forests of the night. Ogden Nash wrote an amusing parody of this poem : Tiger,tiger my mistake I thought you were William Blake. Cloyd Goodrum III