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. Little Masterpieces of English Poetry - Page 246edited by - 1905Full view - About this book
| England - 1847 - 788 pages
...Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a clond I saw a child, And he langhing said to me — ' Pipe a song about a lamb ;' So I...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 twite, In a book that... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...happiness than mortals enjoy. The picture of Innocence is introduced with the following sweet verses. " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...sung 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 vanished from my sight : And I... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 292 pages
...valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a clnud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said tome — Pipe a song about a lamb ; So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again — So f pijied— he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer — So I... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1831 - 292 pages
...Pipe a song about a lamb ; -- So Vpiped wjth merry cheer, r " % Pijier, pipe that song again — Bo I piped— he wept to hear. .... Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer — So T sung the same again, _ * ' -•*•?•' While he wept with joy to hear. ,- v Piper, sit thee down... | |
| Jesse Olney - Readers - 1833 - 150 pages
...lesson? The Piper and the Child. On a cloud I saw a child, — And he laughing said to me, — Z. " Pipe a song about a lamb," — So I piped with merry...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 sung the same again, While... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1836 - 452 pages
...place here — from my own copy of it thrown by in a portfolio some twenty years ago. — " Passing down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee,...sung 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 vanish'd from my sight... | |
| Fashion - 740 pages
...of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ?— " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping soiigs of pleasant glee. On a cloud I saw a child, And he,...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb I' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again I' So I piped ; he wept to hear. ' '... | |
| Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...compiled them into a book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb 1' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again !' So 1 piped ; he wept to hear. " '... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...poems are, is to quote one or two of them. Take the introduction of the Songs of Innocence. Pipiog down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud, I saw a child, And he, laughiog, said to me, " Pipe a song about a lamb," So I piped with merry cheer ; " Piper, pipe that... | |
| Child rearing - 1846 - 292 pages
...Piping SOUL'S of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said tome — Fine a eong about a lamb : So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again — So I piped— he wept to bear Drop thy pipe, thy hnppy pipe, Sins; thy songs of happy cheer — So 1 ftiing the same again,... | |
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