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Baby, baby fair,
Love is fain to dare
Bless your haughtiest air.
Baby, baby fair,
Love is fain to dare
Bless your haughtiest air.
Baby blithe and bland,
Reach but forth a hand
None may dare withstand ;
Reach but forth a hand
None may dare withstand ;
Love, though wellnigh cowed,
Yet would praise aloud
Pride so sweetly proud.
Yet would praise aloud
Pride so sweetly proud.
No! the fitting word
Even from breeze or bird
Never yet was heard.
Even from breeze or bird
Never yet was heard.
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