Songs of Innocence: Introduction

Tuesday 3 August 2004.
 
Piping 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.



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