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From: nelson@cvl.UUCP (Randal Nelson)
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Subject: Re: source for quote needed
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 16:00:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 13 16:00:18 1985
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Interesting how the first three lines 

  Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
  In the forests of the night,
  What immortal hand or eye

stuck word for word with everyone who responded,
while the three or four different versions of the last
have been given -- the general meaning intact, but the precise
wording changed.

The stanza occurs twice, as the first and last in the poem 
with different wordings of the last line.  
The first time:

  Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

The second:

  Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

It is generally supposed that the poem is primarily a portrait
of God one way or another, and the precise wording is significant,
but maybe Blake outdid himself with that glorious image.
The Tyger took over the poem.

                                Randal Nelson