Songs of Innocence by William Blake

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1 Piping down the valleys wild,

2 Piping songs of pleasant glee,

3 On a cloud I saw a child,

4 And he laughing said to me:

5 "Pipe a song about a Lamb!"

6 So I piped with merry cheer.

7 "Piper, pipe that song again;"

8 So I piped: he wept to hear.

9 "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;

10 Sing thy songs of happy cheer:"

11 So I sung the same again,

12 While he wept with joy to hear.

13 "Piper, sit thee down and write

14 In a book, that all may read."

15 So he vanish'd from my sight,

16 And I pluck'd a hollow reed,

17 And I made a rural pen,

18 And I stain'd the water clear,

19 And I wrote my happy songs

20 Every child may joy to hear.