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