Songs Of Innocence

Introduction

• Piping down the valleys wild,
• Piping songs of pleasant glee,
• On a cloud I saw a child,
• And he laughing said to me:
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• “Pipe a song about a Lamb!”
• So I piped with a merry chear.
• “Piper, pipe that song again;”
• So I piped: he wept to hear.
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• “Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
• Sing thy songs of happy chear:”
• So I sung the same again,
• While he wept with joy to hear.
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• “Piper, sit thee down and write
• In a book, that all may read.”
• So he vanish'd from my sight,
• And I pluck'd a hollow reed,
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• And I made a rural pen,
• And I stain'd the water clear,
• And I wrote my happy songs,
• Every child may joy to hear.