{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie03.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie03.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie03.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nPiping down the valleys wild\n Piping songs of pleasant glee\n On a cloud I saw a child.\n And he laughing said to me.\nPipe a song about a Lamb:\n So I piped with merry chear,\n Piper pipe that song again\u2014\n So I piped, he wept to hear.\nDrop thy pipe thy happy pipe\n Sing thy songs of happy chear,\n So I sung the same again\n While he wept with joy to hear.\nPiper sit thee down and write\n In a book that all may read\u2014\n So he vanish\u2019d from my sight,\n And I pluck\u2019d a hollow reed.\nAnd I made a rural pen,\n And I stain\u2019d the water clear,\n And I wrote my happy songs,\n Every child may joy to hear","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Innocence:...","type":"page"}