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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: source for quote needed
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 12:54:36 EDT
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> Can someone tell me what work the fragment
> 	...burning bright, in the forests of the night.
> is taken from?
> 	Glen McCluskey

Sure. It's from "The Tiger" by William Blake, the British painter-philosopher-
poet (fl ca 1800), and there are several verses of which I only know the first
one.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy dreadful symmetry?

John Purbrick					jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA
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