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​Blake Songs: 5. Infant Joy & 6. The Fly: 
​Our first Groundhog Day birthday boy, Dr. Sam Walter, piano, is joined his son, composer & bass-baritone,  David Edgar  Walther, our second Groundhog
Day birthday boy. The Poem is by William Blake:

DavidEdgarWalther · Blake 5. Infant Joy & 6. The Fly: Walther/Walter

Infant Joy
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I have no name 
I am but two days old.— 
What shall I call thee?
I happy am 
Joy is my name,— 
Sweet joy befall thee!

Pretty joy!
Sweet joy but two days old,
Sweet joy I call thee; 
Thou dost smile. 
I sing the while 
Sweet joy befall thee. ​

​The Fly
​
​Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

​Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
​And strength and              breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.