 | Allan Cunningham - 1859 - 288 pages
...presenting images of youth and manhood — of domestic sadness, and fireside joy — of the gayety, and innocence, and happiness of childhood. Every scene...glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said tomePipe a song about a lamb ; So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again— So I piped—... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...that he shows to best advantage. Witness the following bit of simplicity : — Piping down the valleye wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child. And he, laughing, said to me : 1 Pipe a song about a Lamb ! ' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again ;' So I... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...made in the year 1820. Peter Parley. )«Btt on Animals. POEMS ON ANIMALS. THE CHILD AND THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...pipe that song again," So I piped, he wept to hear. So I sang the same agam, " Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer." While he... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 461 pages
...compiled them into a ^ book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to ine : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb ! ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again !... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1866 - 648 pages
...compiled them into a book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse aa this ? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a clond I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb 1 ' So I piped with... | |
 | Joseph O. Barrett - 1872 - 308 pages
...rhymes that prefaced ' Mary had a little lamb,' were sweet to me as wild honey. You recollect, — 4 Piping down the valleys, wild, — Piping songs of...cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me,' &c. Fit beginning for a poem with so heavenly a moral, ' Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know.' " Very... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...the morn : Ruddy cheeks and tresses browC, And a heart as light as thistle down. Anon. 4tlJPJPING. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...that song again," So I piped — he wept to hear. William Blake. SAST THE KING. HIS crown is golden hair, measuring an inch ; His sceptre chubby arms,... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 832 pages
...since, as sweet a piper has piped to a child a song about a lamb : — "'Pipe a song about a lamb.' £S> I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped : he wept to hear." Poor Pan ! He mourned for Echo, the merry mountain-nymph, tricksy as a jackdaw and talkative as a magpie,... | |
 | 1906 - 730 pages
...Songs of Innocence. The key-note of that little book of music is struck by the introductory poem :— Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, , > On a cloud I saw a child. "Pipe a song about a lamb ! " So I piped with merry cheer. " Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 136 pages
...sat down to a hearty breakfast. I shall tell you more of my tour some other time. THE PIPER. IPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child ; ^^5. And he, laughing, said to me, sal '*\ " Pipe a song about a lamb ! " So I piped with merry cheer.... | |
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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. 
