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Literature/English Heritage:
Songs
of Experience:
by: William Blake
1-INTRODUCTION
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.
“Drop thy
pipe, thy happy pipe;
Sing thy
songs of happy cheer:!”
So I sang
the same again,
While he
wept with joy to hear.
“Piper, sit
thee down and write
In a book,
that all may read.”
So he
vanishíd from my sight;
And I
pluckíd a hollow reed,
And I made
a rural pen,
And I
stainíd the water clear,
And I wrote
my happy songs
Every child
may joy to hear.
2-THE
SHEPHERD
How sweet
is the Shepherdís sweet lot!
From the
morn to the evening he stays;
He shall
follow his sheep all the day,
And his
tongue shall be filled with praise.
For he
hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he
hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is
watching while they are in peace,
For they
know when their Shepherd is nigh.
3-THE
ECHOING GREEN
The sun
does arise,
And make
happy the skies;
The merry
bells ring
To welcome
the Spring;
The skylark
and thrush,
The birds
of the bush,
Sing louder
around
To the
bells' cheerful sound;
While our
sports shall be seen
On the
echoing Green.
Old John,
with white hair,
Does laugh
away care,
Sitting
under the oak,
Among the
old folk.
They laugh
at our play,
And soon
they all say,
"Such, such
were the joys
When we all
ó girls and boys "
In our
youth-time were seen
On the
echoing Green."
Till the
little ones, weary,
No more can
be merry:
The sun
does descend,
And our
sports have an end.
Round the
laps of their mothers
Many
sisters and brothers,
Like birds
in their nest,
Are ready
for rest,
And sport
no more seen
On the
darkening green.
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