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Fair boy alas why flyest thou me

DMI number:
5642
First Line:
Fair boy alas why flyest thou me
Last Line:
And thou shalt need no shade but I
Poem Genre / Form:
Complaint, Lyric, and Couplet
Themes:
Love and Race / racism
Related People
Author:
Henry Reynolds
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
LION (variant text)
Content/Publication
Title:
Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
Page No(s):
pp.485
Poem Title:
That the whole World, and all Things in it, are Black; proved in a Letter sent by a Black Maid to a Fair Boy, with whom she was deeply in Love.
Attribution:
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