{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie05.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie05.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie05.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nThe Sun does arise,\n And make happy the skies.\n The merry bells ring,\n To welcome the Spring.\n The sky-lark and thrush,\n The birds of the bush,\n Sing louder around,\n To the bells chearful sound,\n While our sports shall be seen\n On the Ecchoing Green.\nOld John with white hair\n Does laugh away care,\n Sitting under the oak,\n Among the old folk.\nThey\nThey laugh at our play,\n And soon they all say,\n Such such were the joys,\n When we all girls & boys,\n In our youth time were seen,\n On the Ecchoing Green.\nTill the little ones weary\n No more can be merry\n The sun does descend,\n And our sports have an end:\n Round the laps of their mothers,\n Many sisters and brothers,\n Like birds in their nest,\n Are ready for rest:\n And sport no more seen,\n On the darkening Green.","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Innocence:...","type":"page"}