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Tiger! Tiger! burning bright

  1. The first line of the poem “The Tiger,” from Songs of Experience, by William Blake. The first stanza reads:

    Tiger! Tiger! burning bright

    In the forests of the night,

    What immortal hand or eye

    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?



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He kicked that one in at 1:44 p.m. on April 14, 2019, and it might have been in the gloaming of an April 10, 2005, for here was Tiger again, “Tiger, tiger, burning bright,” William Blake’s tiger, of whom the poet asked, “What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

AUGUSTA, Ga.— Tiger, tiger, burning bright, again, not in Blake’s forests of the night but here.

Tiger, tiger burning bright: “A Tijuana tiger cub’s tale continues as a second person has been indicted on suspicion of trying to help a friend smuggle the endangered species into the country from Mexico.”

Tiger, tiger, burning bright, we hope you don’t attack tonight in the new nature doc “Living with Man Eaters.”

He starred on Broadway again in 1962 with Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Browne and Alvin Ailey in “Tiger Tiger Burning Bright,” a pessimistic depiction of a black family’s life in New Orleans at the end of .

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