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[[File:the-speaker-1897-03-20-p325-the-blind-archer.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Speaker]] (20 march 1897, p. 325)]]
[[File:the-living-age-1897-05-08-p346-the-blind-archer.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Living Age]] (8 may 1897, p. 356)]]

''The Blind Archer'' is a poem written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published in [[The Speaker|The Speaker: The Liberal Review]] on 20 march 1897, and first collected in [[Songs of Action]] on 8 june 1898.

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== Editions ==

* in ''[[The Speaker]]'' (20 march 1897 [UK])
* in ''[[The Living Age]]'' (8 may 1897 [US])
* in ''[[Current Literature]]'' (october 1901 [US])
* in ''[[Songs of Action]]'' (1898-1916, [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] [UK])
* in ''[[Songs of Action]]'' (august 1898, [[Charles Scribner's Sons]] [US])
* in ''[[Songs of Action]]'' (september 1898, [[Doubleday & McClure Co.|Doubleday, Page & Co.]] [US])
* ''Little Boy Love'' (1899, [[Boosey & Co.]] [UK]) music sheets by [[Maude Valerie White]]
* in ''[[Handbook of Best Readings]]'' (1902, [[Charles Scribner's Sons]] [US]) compiled by S. H. Clark
* in ''[[Songs of Action]]'' (1918-1920, [[John Murray]] [UK])
* in ''[[The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle]]'' (1922-1928, [[John Murray]] [UK])

== Music ==
''Music translated by AI from the original music sheet below.''

{{audio|boosey-1899-10-little-boy-love-p3-9.mp3}}

== The Blind Archer ==

Little boy Love drew his bow at a chance, 
Shooting down at the ballroom floor; 
He hit an old chaperone watching the dance, 
And oh! but he wounded her sore. 
"Hey, Love, you couldn't mean that! 
Hi, Love, what would you be at?" 
No word would he say, 
But he flew on his way, 
For the little boy's busy, and how could he stay?

Little boy Love drew a shaft just for sport 
At the soberest club in Pall Mall; 
He winged an old veteran drinking his port, 
And down that old veteran fell. 
"Hey, Love, you mustn't do that! 
Hi, Love, what would you be at? 
This cannot be right! 
It's ludicrous quite!" 
But it's no use to argue, for Love's out of sight.

A sad-faced young clerk in a cell all apart 
Was planning a celibate vow; 
But the boy's random arrow has sunk in his heart, 
And the cell is an empty one now. 
"Hey, Love, you mustn't do that! 
Hi, Love, what would you be at? 
He is not for you, 
He has duties to do." 
"But I ''am'' his duty,' quoth Love as he flew.

The king sought a bride, and the nation had hoped 
For a queen without rival or peer. 
But the little boy shot, and the king has eloped 
With Miss No-one on Nothing a year. 
"Hey, Love, you couldn't mean that! 
Hi, Love, what would you be at? 
What an impudent thing 
To make game of a king!" 
"But ''I'm'' a king also," cried Love on the wing.

Little boy Love grew pettish one day; 
"If you keep on complaining," he swore, 
"I'll pack both my bow and my quiver away, 
And so I shall plague you no more." 
"Hey, Love, you mustn't do that! 
Hi, Love, what would you be at? 
You may ruin our ease, 
You may do what you please, 
But we can't do without you, you dear little tease!"

== Adaptation ==

'''Music'''

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File:boosey-1899-10-little-boy-love.jpg|Cover
File:boosey-1899-10-p1-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 1
File:boosey-1899-10-p2-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 2
File:boosey-1899-10-p3-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 3
File:boosey-1899-10-p4-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 4
File:boosey-1899-10-p5-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 5
File:boosey-1899-10-p6-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 6
File:boosey-1899-10-p7-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 7
File:boosey-1899-10-p8-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 8
File:boosey-1899-10-p9-little-boy-love.jpg|p. 9
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