V.

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;

Love, though wellnigh cowed,

Yet would praise aloud

Pride so sweetly proud.

No! the fitting word

Even from breeze or bird

Never yet was heard.

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