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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. "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Page 148
by Allan Cunningham - 1830
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English Literature in Account with Religion, 1800-1900

Edward Mortimer Chapman - 1910 - 604 pages
...that childlike spirit which is the essence of religion. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping gongs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : " Pipe a song about a Lamh ! " So I piped with merry cheer. " Piper, pipe that song again " ; So I piped : he wept to hear....
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. INTRODUCTION TO SONGS OF INNOCENCE ss, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, 160 Can utterl lie, laughing, said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that...
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Elson Grammar School Readers, Book 1

William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1911 - 352 pages
...London. His "Piping Down the Valleys Wild" was written as an introduction to his "Songs of Innocence." 1 PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me:— 2 "Pipe a song about a lamb:" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again:" So I piped;...
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Elson Grammar School Readers, Book 1

William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1911 - 376 pages
...pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — 2 "Pipe a song about a lamh :" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again :" So I piped ; he wept to hear. 3 "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer :" So I sang the same again, 4 "Piper,...
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Poetry Review, Volume 6

Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1915 - 652 pages
...poems in the vision, which forms the prologue of the book, a prelude full of grace and joyous harmony." Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...Pipe a song about a Lamb ! " So I piped with merry chear. " Piper, pipe that song again ; " So I piped : he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe...
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William Blake, Poet and Mystic

Pierre Berger - 1914 - 444 pages
...poems in the Vision which forms the prologue of the book, a prelude full of grace and joyous harmony. Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...Pipe a song about a Lamb ! " So I piped with merry chear. " Piper, pipe that song again ; " So I piped : he wept to hear. " Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe...
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The poetical works of William Blake

William Blake - 1914 - 554 pages
...chap xi. SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE (Engraved 1789-1794) SONGS OF INNOCENCE Introduction , Piping down the valleys wild, / ^ ^ Piping songs of...he laughing said to me : ' Pipe a song about a Lamb ! ' 5 So I piped with merry cheer. * Piper, pipe that song again ; ' So I piped : he wept to hear....
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More Mother Stories

Maud Lindsay - 1914 - 232 pages
...memory of my MOTHER and FATHER, whose loving sympathy with all that gave me joy made my childhood ideal Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing said to me : "Pipe a song about a lamb." "Pipe a song about a lamb.'5 "Tell a story about a pony." The plea of universal childhood is for joyful...
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The Library

Sir John Young Walker MacAlister, Alfred William Pollard, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Sir Frank Chalton Francis - 1914 - 488 pages
...an Introduction from which we here insert the first and the two last stanzas (the fourth and fifth). Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud 1 saw a child, And he laughing said to me : ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may...
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 pages
...with Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influeace. INTRODUCTION (From Songs of Innocence, 1787) Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" S So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again;" So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy...
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