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Piper Introduction to Songs of InnocencePIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: Pipe a song about a lamb: So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again: So I piped; he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer: So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. --William Blake |
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